Chesapeake invader: discovering america's giant meteorite crater
Auteur :
Poag, C. Wylie
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691603063
Date de publication :
21 mars 2017
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
28 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Thirty-five million years ago, a meteorite three miles wide and moving sixty times faster than a bullet slammed into the sea bed 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 th