Bombarded Britain: A Search for British Impact Structures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781860943560)

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.

Author: Richard Stratford
ISBN-10: 186094356X
ISBN-13: 9781860943560
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2004
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 10.02h x 6.54w x 0.76d