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Landslides represent one of the most destructive natural catastrophes. They can reach extremely long distance and velocity, and are capable of wiping out human communities and settlements. Yet landslides have a creative facet as they contribute to the modification of the landscape. They are the consequence of the gravity pull jointly with the tectonic disturbance of our living planet. Landslides are most often studied within a geotechnical and geomorphological perspective. Engineering calculations are traditionally applied to the stability of terrains. In this book, landslides are viewed as a physical phenomenon. A physical understanding of landslides is a basis for modeling and mitigation and for understanding their flow behavior and dynamics. We still know relatively little about many aspects of landslide physics. It is only recently that the field of landslide dynamics is approaching a more mature stage. This is testified by the release of modelling tools for the simulation of landslides and debris flows. In this book the emphasis is placed on the problems at the frontier of landslide research. Each chapter is self-consistent, with questions and arguments introduced from the beginning. The material should be useful to geologists, model developers, professionals and researchers in the fields of engineering, physics and mathematics, and advanced students of geosciences.

Environmental geomorphology -- Congresses. --- Landslide. --- Landslide hazard analysis. --- Landslides -- Congresses. --- Landslides --- Mass-wasting --- Geology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Dynamic & Structural Geology --- Landslides. --- Mass-wasting. --- Mass movement (Soil mechanics) --- Land slides --- Landsliding --- Landslips --- Slides (Landslides) --- Earth sciences. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Physical geography. --- Amorphous substances. --- Complex fluids. --- Environmental sciences. --- Earth Sciences. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Environmental Physics. --- Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics. --- Physical Geography. --- Earth movements --- Geography --- Complex liquids --- Fluids, Complex --- Amorphous substances --- Liquids --- Soft condensed matter --- Environmental science --- Science --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology

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This book introduces the reader to the wonders of Mars, covering all aspects from our past perceptions of the planet through to the latest knowledge on its history, its surface processes such as impact cratering, volcano formation, and glaciation, and its atmosphere and climate. In addition, a series of ten intriguing open issues are considered in a more advanced way. These include such thought-provoking questions as What turned off the planet’s magnetic field?, Why are the northern and southern hemispheres so different?, What was the fate of the once abundant water?, and Is there, or was there, life on Mars? Numerous original figures, unavailable elsewhere, reproduce details of images from Viking, CTX, MOC, HiRISE, THEMIS, and HRSC. The book will appeal especially to general readers interested in planetary sciences, astronomy, astrogeology, and space exploration and to students of Earth Sciences and Natural and Environmental Sciences. The higher-level material on the remaining mysteries of Mars will also be of interest to astrogeologists and other researchers.

Mars (Planet) --- Red Planet --- Astronomy. --- Planetary science. --- Planetology. --- Astrophysics. --- Astrobiology. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Planetary Sciences. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Popular Earth Science. --- Astrobiology --- Biology --- Habitable planets --- Life --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Planetary sciences --- Planetology --- Origin --- Space sciences. --- Earth. --- Geology. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science --- Exobiology.

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This book introduces the reader to the wonders of Mars, covering all aspects from our past perceptions of the planet through to the latest knowledge on its history, its surface processes such as impact cratering, volcano formation, and glaciation, and its atmosphere and climate. In addition, a series of ten intriguing open issues are considered in a more advanced way. These include such thought-provoking questions as What turned off the planet’s magnetic field?, Why are the northern and southern hemispheres so different?, What was the fate of the once abundant water?, and Is there, or was there, life on Mars? Numerous original figures, unavailable elsewhere, reproduce details of images from Viking, CTX, MOC, HiRISE, THEMIS, and HRSC.  The book will appeal especially to general readers interested in planetary sciences, astronomy, astrogeology, and space exploration and to students of Earth Sciences and Natural and Environmental Sciences. The higher-level material on the remaining mysteries of Mars will also be of interest to astrogeologists and other researchers.

Science --- Space research --- Solar system --- Astrophysics --- Biology --- Geography --- zonnestelsel --- astrofysica --- popularisering wetenschap --- biologie --- geografie --- ruimte (astronomie) --- planeten --- ruimtevaart --- astronomie