From local patriotism to a planetary perspective
Subtitle: impact crater research in Germany, 1930s - 1970s
By: Martina Kölbl-Ebert, Jura-Museum Eichstätt, Germany
Series: Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781472438867; 9781472438874; 9781472438881
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Impact craters; Research; History; Structural Geology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the smoking gun; title: Early impactists and their sources; title: Dismissing the impact I; title: A letter from Berlin; title: Kaalijärv crater and Köfels landslide; title: Impact physics; title: beyond human imagination; title: German geology; title: Setting the stage; title: The tide is turning; title: Dismissing the impact II; title: Testing an old theory; title: Ries crater; title: a terrestrial proxy for the moon; title: From local patriotism to a planetary perspective.