Chesapeake Invader
A senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Poag recounts the years of painstaking research that led to the identification of a 50-mile-wide meteorite crater formed 35 million years ago and now lying beneath newer rock and the waters of Chesapeake Bay. The chapters on the biological side of the research are a little weak, but the focus is on earth science and meteorology. Poag does a good job of making his text accessible to a lay audience and of explaining why it is important to study such phenomena as this crater. This book focuses on a specific site, but earlier volumes, for example, Bevan French's Traces of Catastrophe (Luna and Planetary Inst., 1998), Paul Hodge's Meteorite Craters and Impact Structures of the Earth (Cambridge Univ., 1994), and Kathleen Mark's Meteorite Craters (1987) have already covered the subject of meteorite craters in general. For academic libraries and larger public libraries.AJean E. Crampon, Science & Engineering Lib., Univ. of Southern California, Los AngelesCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.