Chesapeake Invader
by C. Wylie Poag
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Virginia, Cryptoexplosion structures, Structural Geology, Science/Mathematics, Science, Earth Sciences - General, Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena, Geological surface processes (geomorphology), Historical geography, Palaeontology, Popular science, USA, Earth Sciences - Geology, Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.), Geology, Structural, Geology, united states| Edition | Availability |
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Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater
2017, Princeton University Press
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Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater
2017, Princeton University Press
in English
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Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater
2017, Princeton University Press
in English
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Chesapeake Invader
October 18, 1999, Princeton University Press
Hardcover
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