Tektites In The Geological Record

Author : Gerald Joseph Home McCall
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862390850
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tektites in the Geological Record written by Gerald Joseph Home McCall and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text commences with the history of tektites, from mediaeval China, through finds in Czechoslovakia in the 18th century and Darwin's description while on the Beagle, to 20th-century finds in South East Asia, the Ivory Coast and the USA. The four major strewn fields are described, followed by their extension by deep sea finds of microtektites and the recognition of irregular, large layered tektites in SE Asia.

Author : Philip M. Bagnall
Publisher : Richmond, Va. : Willmann-Bell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meteorite & Tektite Collector's Handbook written by Philip M. Bagnall and published by Richmond, Va. : Willmann-Bell. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Aloysius O'Keefe
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tektites and Their Origin written by John Aloysius O'Keefe and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1976 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. Brent Dalrymple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book 40Ar/39Ar Age Spectra and Total-fusion Ages of Tektites from Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Sedimentary Rocks in the Beloc Formation, Haiti written by G. Brent Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virgil Everett Barnes
Publisher : Dowden Hutchinson and Ross
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tektites written by Virgil Everett Barnes and published by Dowden Hutchinson and Ross. This book was released on 1973 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Aloysius O'Keefe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Tektites written by John Aloysius O'Keefe and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Joseph Home McCall
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862391949
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections written by Gerald Joseph Home McCall and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Publication has 24 papers with an international authorship, and is prefaced by an introductory overview which presents highlights in the field. The first section covers the acceptance by science of the reality of the falls of rock and metal from the sky, an account that takes the reader from BCE (before common era) to the nineteenth century. The second section details some of the world's most important collections in museums - their origins and development. The Smithsonian chapter also covers the astonishingly numerous finds in the cold desert of Antarctica by American search parties. There are also contributions covering the finds by Japanese parties in the Yamato mountains and the equally remarkable discoveries in the hot deserts of Australia, North Africa, Oman and the USA. The other seven chapters take the reader through the revolution in scientific research on meteoritics in the later part of the twentieth century, including terrestrial impact cratering and extraordinary showers of glass from the sky; tektites, now known to be Earth-impact-sourced. Finally, the short epilogue looks to the future.

Author : P.G. Eriksson
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 008054259X
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precambrian Earth written by P.G. Eriksson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.e. non-applied) topics in Precambrian geology in a non-partisan way, by using a large team of international authors to present their datasets and highly divergent viewpoints. The chapters address: celestial origins of Earth and succeeding extraterrestrial impact events; generation of continental crust and the greenstone-granite debate; the interaction of mantle plumes and plate tectonics over Precambrian time; Precambrian volcanism, emphasising komatiite research; evolution and models for Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere; evolution of life and its influence on Precambrian ocean chemistry and chemical sedimentation; sedimentation through Precambrian time; the application of sequence stratigraphy to the Precambrian rock record. Each topic is introduced and a non-partisan closing commentary provided at the end of each chapter. The final chapter blends the major geological events and rates at which important processes occurred into a synthesis, which postulates a number of "event clusters" in the Precambrian when significant changes occurred in many natural systems and geological environments. Also available in paperback, ISBN: 0-444-51509-7

Author : Shin Yabushita
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401713219
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History written by Shin Yabushita and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade of this century has seen a renewed interest in the dynamics and physics of the small bodies of the Solar System, Asteroids, Comets and Meteors. New observational evidences such as the discovery of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, refined numerical tools such as the symplectic integrators, analytical tools such as semi-numerical perturbation algorithms and in general a better understanding of the dynamics of Hamiltonian systems, all these factors have converged to make possible and worthwhile the study, over very long time spans, of these "minor" objects. Also the public, the media and even some political assell}blies have become aware that these "minor" objects of our planetary environnement could become deadly weapons. Apparently they did have a role in Earth history and a role more ominous than "predicting" defeat (or victory, why not?) to batches of credulous rulers. Remembering what may have happened to the dinosaurs but keeping all the discretion necessary to avoid creating irrational scares, it may not be unwise or irrelevant to improve our knowledge of the physics and dynamics of these objects and to study in particular their interactions with our planet.

Author : Dean R. Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lunar Origin of Tektites written by Dean R. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: