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Bombarded Britain: A Search For British Impact Structures
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210,00 € |
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| Verlag: | Imperial College Press |
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| Veröffentl.: | 26.07.2004 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781848161238 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 220 |
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Beschreibungen
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.
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