Titre : | Bombarded Britain : a search for british impact structures | Type de document : | document imprimé | Auteurs : | R. Stratford, Auteur | Editeur : | Imperial College Press | Autre Editeur : | World Scientific | Importance : | 220 p. | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 1-86094-356-X | Note générale : | Paperback
| Langues : | Français (fre) | Index. décimale : | 90 Astronomy, and Astrophysics | Résumé : | A discussion of the search for geological evidence of meteorite impact structures in Britain. A constant theme is the importance of atmospheric break-up of small asteroids and comets. These fragmenting bodies produce shallow craters with low rims; three structures of this type are identified. Table of contents: Impacts and Geology: A Curious Omission; Of Calculations and Craters; The Search for Impact Structures; The Shetland Craters; Midlands Geology; The Ashby Structure; The Charnwood Circles; The Midlands Basin - A Cometary Impact Structure?; The Herefordshire Domes; The Rochford Basin - A Digression into Essex; Gabbro, Granite and Grampians; Other Circular Structures; Impacts in History?: Of Small Craters and Airbursts; Levin-Bolt and Blast; Dozmary Pool; British Atlantis.
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Bombarded Britain : a search for british impact structures [document imprimé] / R. Stratford, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Imperial College Press : [S.l.] : World Scientific, [s.d.] . - 220 p. ISBN : 1-86094-356-X Paperback
Langues : Français ( fre) Index. décimale : | 90 Astronomy, and Astrophysics | Résumé : | A discussion of the search for geological evidence of meteorite impact structures in Britain. A constant theme is the importance of atmospheric break-up of small asteroids and comets. These fragmenting bodies produce shallow craters with low rims; three structures of this type are identified. Table of contents: Impacts and Geology: A Curious Omission; Of Calculations and Craters; The Search for Impact Structures; The Shetland Craters; Midlands Geology; The Ashby Structure; The Charnwood Circles; The Midlands Basin - A Cometary Impact Structure?; The Herefordshire Domes; The Rochford Basin - A Digression into Essex; Gabbro, Granite and Grampians; Other Circular Structures; Impacts in History?: Of Small Craters and Airbursts; Levin-Bolt and Blast; Dozmary Pool; British Atlantis.
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