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The Topography, Gravity, and Tectonics of the Terrestrial Planets
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Ritzer, Jason Andreas
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1278603504
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2010, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Geological Sciences.
Abstract
The topography and gravity of some of the solid earth bodies in our solar system including the Moon, Mercury, and Mars are used to investigate the density structure, lithospheric structure and resultant tectonic deformation. The difficulties in representing the gravitational field based on satellite data are explored including possible solutions including a change of representational basis function. The problem of representing the gravitational field based on non-uniform data distributions is addressed. Early results and expected returns from the MESSENGER mission to Mercury including compressional tectonics are studied.
Committee
Steven Hauck, II (Committee Chair)
James Van Orman (Committee Member)
J. Iwan D. Alexander (Committee Member)
Ralph Harvey (Committee Member)
Pages
128 p.
Subject Headings
Geophysics
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Mathematics
Keywords
Geophysics
;
Planetary Science
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Geodesy
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Lithosphere
;
Gravity
;
Topography
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Mars
;
Mercury
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Spherical Harmonics
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Radial Basis
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Ritzer, J. A. (2010).
The Topography, Gravity, and Tectonics of the Terrestrial Planets
[Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1278603504
APA Style (7th edition)
Ritzer, Jason.
The Topography, Gravity, and Tectonics of the Terrestrial Planets.
2010. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1278603504.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Ritzer, Jason. "The Topography, Gravity, and Tectonics of the Terrestrial Planets." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1278603504
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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© 2010, some rights reserved.
The Topography, Gravity, and Tectonics of the Terrestrial Planets by Jason Andreas Ritzer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies and OhioLINK.