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CHAPMAN, M. (ed.) 2007. The Geology of Mars. Evidence from Earth-Based Analogs.

Cambridge Planetary Science Series. xiii + 460 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £75.00, US $135.00 (hard covers). ISBN 9780 521 83292 6.

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Understanding geological process on Earth is fundamental to understanding those on most other planetary bodies. Equally, geological studies on other planets where physical conditions such gravity and atmospheric pressure (or lack of it) may be different, provide testing grounds for physical models of processes that occur on Earth. This is particularly true of Mars where many processes familiar to Earth-based geologists have moulded its surface. Mary Chapman, a US Geological Survey-based scientist, is therefore to be congratulated on conceiving and bringing together this book of chapters on geological processes common to Earth and Mars.

The book is timely. After a long time gap . . . [Full Text of this Article]