Cover Image

From local patriotism to a planetary perspective : impact crater research in Germany, 1930s - 1970s /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kölbl-Ebert, Martina (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
Series:Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
Subjects:
Impact craters > Research > Germany > History > 20th century.
Geology, Structural > Germany.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the smoking gun
  • Early impactists and their sources
  • Dismissing the impact I
  • A letter from Berlin
  • Kaalijärv crater and Köfels landslide
  • Impact physics
  • beyond human imagination
  • German geology
  • Setting the stage
  • The tide is turning
  • Dismissing the impact II
  • Testing an old theory
  • Ries crater
  • a terrestrial proxy for the moon
  • From local patriotism to a planetary perspective.