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Paperback. Series: Minerals, Rocks and Mountains. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
My goal in writing this book was to provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I succeeded it should prove useful both to the practicing professional and to university students at the upper-division and graduate levels. I originally intended the book to be nearly twice as long. The second half was to be a review of properties relating to the origin of each group of meteorites. Chapter XVIII is an example of how these later chapters would have looked, although most would not have been as interpretative. These chapters would have been useful ... Read more
My goal in writing this book was to provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I succeeded it should prove useful both to the practicing professional and to university students at the upper-division and graduate levels. I originally intended the book to be nearly twice as long. The second half was to be a review of properties relating to the origin of each group of meteorites. Chapter XVIII is an example of how these later chapters would have looked, although most would not have been as interpretative. These chapters would have been useful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Minerals, Rocks and Mountains
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642658655
SKU
V9783642658655
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Ref
99-15
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