Bombarded Britain : a search for British impact structures / Richard Stratford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stratford, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meteorite craters--Great Britain.

Meteorite craters.

Meteorites--Great Britain.

Meteorites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 208 p., [12] leaves of folded plates ) col. maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Publishing, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A discussion of the search for geological evidence of meteorite impact structures in Britain. A constant theme is the importance of atmospheric break-up of small asteroids and comets. These fragmenting bodies produce shallow craters with low rims; three structures of this type are identified.

A discussion of the 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.

Contents:

Impacts and Geology: A Curious Omission; Of Calculations and Craters; The Search for Impact Structures; The Shetland Craters; Midlands Geology; The Ashby Structure; The Charnwood Circles; The Midlands Basin - A Cometary Impact Structure?; The Herefordshire Domes; The Rochford Basin - A Digression into Essex; Gabbro, Granite and Grampians; Other Circular Structures; Impacts in History?: Of Small Craters and Airbursts; Levin-Bolt and Blast; Dozmary Pool; British Atlantis.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index.

ISBN:

9786611865863

9781281865861

1281865869

9781848161238

1848161239

OCLC:

815741804