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Review of the hardback: '… this excellent slim book by a world-renowned astronomer sets out the up-to-date research results on impact structures on Earth … The book is well produced with black and white photographs, and would make an excellent companion book to others containing, say, LANDSAT pictures of planet Earth from space.' Irish Astronomical Journal
Review of the hardback: ' … a valuable resource for students or anyone else interested in learning more about impact features.' Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin
Review of the hardback: 'The descriptions are not only informative but also inviting … Meteorite craters provide us with our only chance to study and walk on a real astronomical phenomenon. Read this book and be prepared to travel.' W. Hughes, Observatory
Review of the hardback: ' … a valuable resource for students or anyone else interested in learning more about impact features.' Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin
Review of the hardback: 'The descriptions are not only informative but also inviting … Meteorite craters provide us with our only chance to study and walk on a real astronomical phenomenon. Read this book and be prepared to travel.' W. Hughes, Observatory
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During its five-billion-year history, Earth has been hit countless times by asteroids and meteorites. Over 150 crater-producing events have been identified, and this 1994 book describes all 139 sites worldwide at which evidence of the impacts can be seen. They range in age from recent craters formed this century to the highly eroded billion-year-old ancient craters. Some are spectacular to visit, such as the Barringer Crater in Arizona, the ring-shaped mountains of Gosses Bluff, Australia, and the huge crater at Ries in Germany. For each site there is a summary table giving location, size, age and present condition. Maps are included where necessary. The author has visited many of the sites and his photographs enrich this thorough survey. Meteorite craters are fascinating to visit, so the descriptions include guidance about access and suggested itineraries for the large structures.
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The Barringer Crater, also known as the Arizona Crater or Meteor Crater, is the best known impact structure in North America. Read the first page
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Extremely over-priced Novice level tourist guide
15 Jun 2002
Format:Hardcover
What the reader expects is an atlas of these crater structures, but what you get is little more than the content provided by any other run-of-the-mill tourist type book. This could have been a great work had there been some real meat and history added. Above all else, however is the insult of a [high]price tag ... outragious.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A list and short discription of known impact craters
5 Dec 1998
Format:Hardcover
This book contains short discriptions, with some photos and usually a local map to be used when exploring each impact structure on the ground. It is not intended as an in-depth scientific discussion of the impact process or of any particular terrestrial impact structure, but rather, as a "travel guide" to impact sites. It fullfils this purpose admirably.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Helpful but needs update of geophysical images
24 April 2010
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This is, as the Lunar Planetary Institute (LPI - [...]) points out, a useful book as a survey of major terrestrial impact structures. However, the printing screen on the images is coarse and the publisher should reconsider another edition with better reproductions. Quality of imagery presents a large part of the information for this topic. With resources online such as [...], I wonder why this book does not take more advantage of digital resources. As an author myself, I have real sympathy with the publications costs for a book that has as many images as this one does. Is there a possibility that the publisher can re-issue this book in color digital-on-demand format? It might have potential then as a coffee table book as well as an information source.
As for updates, even though the publication date is January 2010, many of the images seem old or have poor resolution, an issue in this age of digital plus satellite photography. For example, the LPI has presented some outstanding geophysical imagery of the Yucatan Chicxulub structure. It is not exposed at the surface, being about 65 my old, so only geophysical images show its configuration and extent. Further, the LPI gravity anomaly image has the 90 km trench that leads into the structure of overlying rings that are in turn overlain by a pair of "jets" that point into the Caribbean. All this detail underlies reasoning about the sequence of events connected to the impact of the 10 km asteroid that created Chicxulub (Mayan: "tail of the devil") is absent from the published grayscale image.
I was delighted to note that the helpful bibliography contains a reference to an Arthur Upfield "Napoleon Bonaparte" detective novel that takes place at the West Australian Wolfe Creek Crater. But the novel is "Will of the Tribe" rather than "Death of a Swagman" (location: Lake Mungo/Walls of China in New South Wales). A database at [...] has higher resolution images of the Wolfe Creek impact structure.
I found this book somewhat helpful if accompanied by a listing of impact structures by age as well as academic sites that discuss the geophysics of impacts beyond some basic diagrams and the thin sections of shocked quartz grains that accompany non-terrestrially created shock waves. Those who would like to extend their knowledge of impact structures to our larger solar system may find the pattern matching interesting because bolide collisions are common events in our astronomical neighborhood.
Dr. Hodge appropriately dedicated his work to Eugene Shoemaker, the astro-geologist who perished in a road accident in Australia while on a trip to evaluate impact structures. The Teague Ring in Australia now honors the memory of this geologist, whose ashes now reside on our Moon.
As for updates, even though the publication date is January 2010, many of the images seem old or have poor resolution, an issue in this age of digital plus satellite photography. For example, the LPI has presented some outstanding geophysical imagery of the Yucatan Chicxulub structure. It is not exposed at the surface, being about 65 my old, so only geophysical images show its configuration and extent. Further, the LPI gravity anomaly image has the 90 km trench that leads into the structure of overlying rings that are in turn overlain by a pair of "jets" that point into the Caribbean. All this detail underlies reasoning about the sequence of events connected to the impact of the 10 km asteroid that created Chicxulub (Mayan: "tail of the devil") is absent from the published grayscale image.
I was delighted to note that the helpful bibliography contains a reference to an Arthur Upfield "Napoleon Bonaparte" detective novel that takes place at the West Australian Wolfe Creek Crater. But the novel is "Will of the Tribe" rather than "Death of a Swagman" (location: Lake Mungo/Walls of China in New South Wales). A database at [...] has higher resolution images of the Wolfe Creek impact structure.
I found this book somewhat helpful if accompanied by a listing of impact structures by age as well as academic sites that discuss the geophysics of impacts beyond some basic diagrams and the thin sections of shocked quartz grains that accompany non-terrestrially created shock waves. Those who would like to extend their knowledge of impact structures to our larger solar system may find the pattern matching interesting because bolide collisions are common events in our astronomical neighborhood.
Dr. Hodge appropriately dedicated his work to Eugene Shoemaker, the astro-geologist who perished in a road accident in Australia while on a trip to evaluate impact structures. The Teague Ring in Australia now honors the memory of this geologist, whose ashes now reside on our Moon.
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