Jack Green (geologist)

For other people named Jack Green, see Jack Green (disambiguation).
Jack Green in 2013

Jack Green (18 June 1925 – 5 September 2014) was a geologist and geology professor at California State University Long Beach.[1] His active research included general volcanology and economic geology, as well as mineralogy, lunar protolife, lunar volcanism, water on the moon[2] and astrobiology. His passion for volcanology and the moon was primarily in trying to prove that lunar craters were volcanic and not asteroid impacts, and therefore, there would be water on the moon which would support life. He collaborated with Urey, Shoemaker, Kuiper and others during the "Space Age" heyday,[3] and was active in planning several conferences on remote sensing and the moon.[4]

Jack Green was best known for his 1971 book, co-edited with Nicholas Short, Volcanic landforms and surface features, a photographic atlas and glossary.[5] Later (2010) publications included Implications for Lunar Volcanism and Proto-Life Based on Discoveries of Lunar Water[6] and the (2011) paper Academic Aspects of Lunar Water Resources and Their Relevance to Lunar Protolife.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Jack Green". Geological Sciences at California State University Long Beach. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Selenology: Water on the Moon?". Time Magazine. Feb 23, 1968. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Proceedings of Lunar and Planetary Exploration Colloquium (Vol. 1 May 13, 1958 to April 25, 1959 Volume 2 April 1959 To December 1961, Volume 1 & 2). Space Sciences Laboratory Publishers. 1961.
  4. ↑ Green, Jack (October 1963). "The Geology of the Lunar Base". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 105: 491–625. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1963.tb42992.x.
  5. ↑ Short, Nicholas M. (1971). Volcanic landforms and surface features: a photographic atlas and glossary. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387053288.
  6. ↑ Green, Jack (2010). "Implications for Lunar Volcanism and Proto-Life Based on Discoveries of Lunar Water". Journal of Cosmology 5: 1131–1140.
  7. ↑ Green, Jack (2011). "Academic Aspects of Lunar Water Resources and Their Relevance to Lunar Protolife". Int. J. Mol. Sci. 12 (9): 6051–6076. doi:10.3390/ijms12096051. PMC 3189768. PMID 22016644.
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