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Meteorite Impact!: The Danger from Space and South Africa's Mega-Impact The Vredefort Structure (Geoparks of the World (1)) by Wolf Uwe Reimold, Roger L. Gibson (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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When geologists first wandered the spectacular ring of hills straddling the Vaal River north of Vredefort nearly 150 years ago, they immediately recognised that the unusually shattered and uptilted rocks bore witness to an exceptionally violent event in the distant past. However, it took more than a century of painstaking work before the accumulated evidence revealed the cause -- the impact with Earth of a meteorite, the size of a mountain, about 2 020 million years ago. This book presents an opportunity to travel back in time to this remarkable event -- arguably the single greatest geological catastrophe yet uncovered on our planet. It presents an easy to read account of the ten minutes that, quite literally, shook the world. Readers are taken both to the farthest reaches of our Solar System and back to its beginnings in a search for the source of meteorites. The book shows how the immense violence of the event and aeons of slow erosion have combined to provide us with a unique window onto the early history of planet Earth and into the deep levels of its interior. It goes on to show how the lessons learned from the rocks around Vredefort are being used throughout the world to teac
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wolf Uwe Reimold, Roger L. Gibson (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783642104640
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Physics
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