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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stratford, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2004.
Temas:
Meteorite craters > Great Britain.
Cratères météoriques > Grande-Bretagne.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
Meteorite craters
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Impacts and Geology
  • 1. A Curious Omission
  • 2. Of Calculations and Craters
  • 3. The Search for Impact Structures
  • 4. The Shetland Craters
  • 5. Midlands Geology
  • 6. The Ashby Inlier
  • 7. Charnwood Forest
  • 8. The Midlands Basin 8212; A Cometary Impact Structure?
  • 9. The Herefordshire Domes
  • 10. The Rochford Basin 8212; A Digression into Essex
  • 11. Fuller's Earth and Bagshot Sands 8212; A Surrey Crater?
  • 12. Gabbro, Granite, and Grampians
  • 13. Other Circular Structures
  • Part II. Impacts in History
  • 14. Small Craters Airbursts, and Tsunami
  • 15. Dozmary Pool and Other Craterlets
  • 16. Levin-Bolt and Blast
  • 17. British Atlantis?
  • Epilogue: The Silverpit Crater
  • Appendix 1 Historical Fireballs in Britain
  • Appendix 2 Possible Impact-Induced Disasters
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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