Meteorite Craters

by Kathleen Mark

Book Overview

IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE twentieth century, an enormous bowl-shaped hole in the high plains of northern Arizona was investigated by a mining engineer and his associates. The hole was almost three quarters of a mile wide-a little over one kilometer9-and it penetrated thick layers of subsurface rock. The investigators concluded that it was created thousands of years ago when a mass of meteoritic iron struck the earth, and they produced extensive evidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816509026
• ISBN13: 9780816509027
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"