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Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America´s Giant Meteorite Crater
C. Wylie Poag
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Description for Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America´s Giant Meteorite Crater
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 168 pages, 60 halftones 1 line illus. 2 tables 16 maps. BIC Classification: RB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Thirty-five million years ago, a meteorite three miles wide and moving sixty times faster than a bullet slammed into the sea bed near what is now Chesapeake Bay. The impact, more powerful than the combined explosion of every nuclear bomb on Earth, blasted out a crater fifty miles wide and one mile deep. Shock waves radiated through the Earth for thousands of miles, shaking the foundations of the Appalachians, as gigantic waves and winds of white-hot debris transformed the eastern seaboard into a lifeless wasteland. Chesapeake Invader is the story of this cataclysm, told by the man who discovered it ... Read more
Thirty-five million years ago, a meteorite three miles wide and moving sixty times faster than a bullet slammed into the sea bed near what is now Chesapeake Bay. The impact, more powerful than the combined explosion of every nuclear bomb on Earth, blasted out a crater fifty miles wide and one mile deep. Shock waves radiated through the Earth for thousands of miles, shaking the foundations of the Appalachians, as gigantic waves and winds of white-hot debris transformed the eastern seaboard into a lifeless wasteland. Chesapeake Invader is the story of this cataclysm, told by the man who discovered it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691603063
SKU
V9780691603063
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Reviews for Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America´s Giant Meteorite Crater
A light-handed tale of scientific exploration, fascinating as living theater, where the daily grind has a chance to reval more cosmic thrummings... All this Poag relates with clipped vibrancy, and it makes for riveting reading.
Kirkus Reviews Poag does a good job of making his text accessible to a lay audience and ofexplaining why it is important to study ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews Poag does a good job of making his text accessible to a lay audience and ofexplaining why it is important to study ... Read more