Author: Gerald Joseph Home McCall
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862390850
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
Tektites in the Geological Record
Author: Gerald Joseph Home McCall
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862390850
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862390850
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
The Precambrian Earth
Author: P.G. Eriksson
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 008054259X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 967
Book Description
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
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 008054259X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 967
Book Description
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
Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History
Author: Shin Yabushita
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401713219
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401713219
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
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.
Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth
Author: Leon Theodore Silver
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813721903
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813721903
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution II
Author: Burkhard O. Dressler
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 9780813723396
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 9780813723396
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Tektites and Their Origin
Author: John Aloysius O'Keefe
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: E. A. Du Bray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description