Impact! : the threat of comets and asteroids / Gerrit L. Verschuur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verschuur, Gerrit L., 1937- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comets.

Asteroids.

Impact.

Evolution (Biology).

Earth (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256p. ) ill., facsims., map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until recently collisions between the Earth and a comet were thought to be so rare that the threat to life on Earth from such objects was dismissed as being too unlikely to worry about. This book shows the threats and precarious nature of life here.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Content

1: The Killer Strikes

2: The Saga of the Chicxulub Crater

3: Solar System Debris

4: Something About Comets

5: The Birth of the Earth

6: The Nineteenthcentury Perspective

7: Twentieth-Century Rumblings

8: Comet Impacts in History

9: On the Edge of Extinction

10: Reconstructing the Crime

11: Death Star or Coherent Catastrophism?

12: Craters and Tsunamis

13: Offering Odds on Impact

14: The Great Comet Crash of 1994

15: The Aftermath

16: The Search

17: Dodging the Asteroids?

18: Our Place in Space

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028370-X

0-19-756123-3

1-280-47127-1

0-19-802617-X

9786610471270

1-4237-3904-3

0-19-535327-7

1-60256-270-9

OCLC:

936913955