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BOMBARDED BRITAIN
A Search for British Impact Structures
by Richard Stratford (INSPEC, UK)
This book describes a 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 Inlier
- Charnwood Forest
- The Midlands Basin — A Cometary Impact Structure?
- The Herefordshire Domes
- The Rochford Basin — A Digression into Essex
- Fuller’s Earth and Bagshot Sands — A Surrey Crater?
- Gabbro, Granite, and Grampians
- Other Circular Structures
- Impacts in History:
- Small Craters, Airbursts, and Tsunami
- Dozmary Pool and Other Craterlets
- Levin–Bolt and Blast
- British Atlantis?
Readership: Upper level undergraduates and post-graduate students in geology
and planetary science.
“In his search for bombarded Britain, the author delivers a master class in impact and air blast processes ... I believe that Bombarded Britain is going to make an impact.”
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Pub. date: Jul 2004 |
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