Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona
Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona
Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona
This
note covers the following topics: introduction, target sequence, barringer
meteorite impact crater, shock metamorphism, crater rim uplift and crater wall
collapse, overturned rim sequence, distribution of ejecta, projectile,
trajectory, energy of impact, age of the crater, environmental effects of the
impact, postimpact lake, crater rim east trail guide, crater floor trail guide,
bibliography
This note deals with the application
of geological and related principles to the solution of various types of crimes.
Topics covered includes: The Case of the Sandy Body, Characterizing Sand,
Characterizing Minerals, Characterizing Rocks, Using Pigments to Identify Art
Fraud, Demise of the Ice Man, Radioactive Isotopes, Stable Isotopes.
A structural geology
laboratory manual comes always handy to anyone dealing with maps, cross-sections
or stereograhic nets. This manual contains explanations and exercises on
attitude measurements, true and apparent dips, three-point problems,
stereographic projections, rotations with the stereonet, stereograms, geologic
mapping and cross-section construction, thickness and outcrop problems ans
statistical techniques.