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Bombarded Britain : a search for British impact structures /
Annotation This book describes a search for geological evidence of meteorite impact structures in Britain. The statistics of impact structures indicate that Britain should have Phanerozoic impact structures up to tens of kilometres in diameter. A constant theme is the importance of atmospheric break...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore ; River Edge, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Annotation This book describes a search for geological evidence of meteorite impact structures in Britain. The statistics of impact structures indicate that Britain should have Phanerozoic impact structures up to tens of kilometres in diameter. A constant theme is the importance of atmospheric break-up of small asteroids and comets. These fragmenting bodies produce anomalously shallow craters with low rims and central peaks; three British structures of this type are identified. Analysis of fireball statistics implies that damaging fireball explosions occur over the British Isles on a time-scale of decades. On a time-scale of millennia, however, more damage is done by Atlantic impact tsunami. Readership: Upper level undergraduates and post-graduate students in geology and planetary science. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 208 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates) : color maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848161238 1848161239 1281865869 9781281865861 186094356X 9781860943560 9786611865863 6611865861 |