| Description |
1 online resource (x, 208 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates) : color maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Impacts and Geology -- 1. A Curious Omission -- 2. Of Calculations and Craters -- 3. The Search for Impact Structures -- 4. The Shetland Craters -- 5. Midlands Geology -- 6. The Ashby Inlier -- 7. Charnwood Forest -- 8. The Midlands Basin 8212; A Cometary Impact Structure? -- 9. The Herefordshire Domes -- 10. The Rochford Basin 8212; A Digression into Essex -- 11. Fuller's Earth and Bagshot Sands 8212; A Surrey Crater? -- 12. Gabbro, Granite, and Grampians -- 13. Other Circular Structures -- Part II. Impacts in History -- 14. Small Craters Airbursts, and Tsunami -- 15. Dozmary Pool and Other Craterlets -- 16. Levin-Bolt and Blast -- 17. British Atlantis? -- Epilogue: The Silverpit Crater -- Appendix 1 Historical Fireballs in Britain -- Appendix 2 Possible Impact-Induced Disasters -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Annotation This book describes a search for geological evidence of meteorite impact structures in Britain. The statistics of impact structures indicate that Britain should have Phanerozoic impact structures up to tens of kilometres in diameter. A constant theme is the importance of atmospheric break-up of small asteroids and comets. These fragmenting bodies produce anomalously shallow craters with low rims and central peaks; three British structures of this type are identified. Analysis of fireball statistics implies that damaging fireball explosions occur over the British Isles on a time-scale of decades. On a time-scale of millennia, however, more damage is done by Atlantic impact tsunami. Readership: Upper level undergraduates and post-graduate students in geology and planetary science. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Meteorite craters -- Great Britain.
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Meteorite craters. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stratford, Richard. Bombarded Britain. London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2004 186094356X 9781860943560 (OCoLC)56824270 |
| ISBN |
9781848161238 (electronic book) |
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1848161239 (electronic book) |
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1281865869 |
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9781281865861 |
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9781860943560 |
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186094356X |
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