Chesapeake invader : discovering America's giant meteorite crater

The Resource Chesapeake invader : discovering America's giant meteorite crater

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Chesapeake invader : discovering America's giant meteorite crater

Title remainder

discovering America's giant meteorite crater

Statement of responsibility

C. Wylie Poag

Language

eng

Summary

"Thirty-five million years ago, a meteorite three miles wide and moving sixty times faster than a bullet slammed into the seabed near what is now Chesapeake Bay. The impact, more powerful than the combined explosion of every nuclear bomb on Earth, blasted out a crater fifty miles wide and one mile deep. Shock waves radiated through the Earth for thousands of miles, shaking the foundations of the Appalachians, as gigantic waves and winds of white-hot debris transformed the eastern seaboard into a lifeless wasteland. Chesapeake Invader is the story of this cataclysm, told by the man who discovered it happened. Wylie Poag, a senior scientist with the U.S
Geological Survey, explains when and why the catastrophe occurred, what destruction it caused, how scientists unearthed evidence of the impact, and how the meteorite's effects are felt even today."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

551.3/97/0916347

Illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QE613.5.C48

LC item number

P6 1999

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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