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  title info:
    title: Meteorite Impact!
    sub title: The Danger from Space and South Africa's Mega-Impact The Vredefort Structure
  name:
    name part: Reimold, Wolf Uwe.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gibson, Roger L.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 32_Reimold_Gibson.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 342 p. 300 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: When geologists first wandered the spectacular ring of hills straddling the Vaal River north of Vredefort nearly 150 years ago, they immediately recognised that the unusually shattered and uptilted rocks bore witness to an exceptionally violent event in the distant past. However, it took more than a century of painstaking work before the accumulated evidence revealed the cause — the impact with Earth of a meteorite, the size of a mountain, about 2 020 million years ago. This book presents an opportunity to travel back in time to this remarkable event — arguably the single greatest geological catastrophe yet uncovered on our planet. It presents an easy to read account of the ten minutes that, quite literally, shook the world. Readers are taken both to the farthest reaches of our Solar System and back to its beginnings in a search for the source of meteorites. The book shows how the immense violence of the event and aeons of slow erosion have combined to provide us with a unique window onto the early history of planet Earth and into the deep levels of its interior. It goes on to show how the lessons learned from the rocks around Vredefort are being used throughout the world to teach a new generation of scientists of the reality, and danger, of similar events in the future. Finally, this book reviews more than 200 000 years of human habitation in this area of exceptional natural beauty and biodiversity. This history starts with the early San hunters, whose graceful art survives today on rocks formed during the impact event. The arrivals and settlements of Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaner and British settlers are discussed, including the landmark wars that affected the region over the last three centuries. This book documents the rich geological, archaeological, cultural and botanical heritage presented by the Vredefort region in an easily digestible manner, opening up the information to non- geoscientists. It concludes with a guide to key sites that highlight the heritage of t…
  table of contents: I -- The Early History of Earth — Impact, Volcanoes and Early Life -- Chaos and Catastrophe -- The Impact Heritage of Southern Africa -- Vredefort: The Largest and Oldest Impact Structure in the World -- The Recent History of the Vredefort Dome Area -- Frequently Asked Questions -- What Does the Future Hold for Humankind? -- Tourism in the Vredefort Dome -- II -- Tour Guide through the Vredefort Dome.
  note: by Wolf Uwe Reimold, Roger L. Gibson.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  classification: QB600-701
  classification: 523.4
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642104640
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10464-0
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    record creation date: 100623
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