Description: Chesapeake Bay Crater : Geology and Geophysics of a Late Eocene Submarine Impact Structure, Hardcover by Poag, C. Wylie (EDT); Koeberl, Christian (EDT); Reimold, Wolf Uwe (EDT); Koeberl, Christian; Reimold, Wolf Uwe, ISBN 3540404414, ISBN-13 9783540404415, Brand New, Free shipping in the US " . . . bangs have replaced whimpers and the geological record has become much more exciting than it was thought to be. " Derek Ager (1993) The New Catastro phism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p xix Scientific and public interest in asteroids, comets, and meteorite impacts has never been more intense than right now. Much of this interest stems from the fervent debates surrounding the causes of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinctions and their possible relationships to a giant bolide impact in Mexico's Yucatan Penin sula. Recent spectacular impacts on Jupiter, and several near misses of our own planet by Near-Earth Objects have intensified professional and popular discussion of society's imperative need to understand the process and effects of bolide im pacts. In the United States, the scientific community and the public, as well, were startled to learn, in 1994, that the largest impact structure in this country had been detected beneath Virginia's portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Seismic surveys and deep coring revealed a huge crater, 85 kilometers in diameter and more than a kilometer deep, stretching from Yorktown, Virginia, to 15 kilometers out onto the shallow continental shelf. Several of Virginia's major population centers, includ ing Norfolk, Hampton, and Newport News, are located on the western rim of the crater, and still experience residual effects of the original collision, 36 million years after the impact took place. Exploration and documentation of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure has proceeded in three phases.
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Book Title: Chesapeake Bay Crater : Geology and Geophysics of a Late Eocene S
Number of Pages: Xv, 523 Pages
Publication Name: Chesapeake Bay Crater : Geology and Geophysics of a Late Eocene Submarine Impact Structure
Language: English
Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: Physics / Geophysics, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Earth Sciences / Geology
Item Weight: 37.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: W. U. Reimold, C. W. Poag, C. Koeberl
Subject Area: Science
Series: Impact Studies
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
