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From local patriotism to a planetary perspective : impact crater research in Germany, 1930s - 1970s / by Martina Kölbl-Ebert.
Van Pelt Library QE612.5.G3 K65 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kölbl-Ebert, Martina, author.
- Series:
- Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
- Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impact craters--Research--Germany--History--20th century.
- Impact craters.
- Geology, Structural--Germany.
- Geology, Structural.
- Research.
- History.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introducing the smoking gun
- Early impactists and their sources
- Dismissing the impact I
- A letter from Berlin
- Kaalijärv crater and Köfels landslide
- Impact physics
- beyond human imagination
- German geology
- Setting the stage
- The tide is turning
- Dismissing the impact II
- Testing an old theory
- Ries crater
- a terrestrial proxy for the moon
- From local patriotism to a planetary perspective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472438867
- 1472438868
- OCLC:
- 883836308
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