Chesapeake Invader
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Word Count
45,750 words, Guess
Page Count
183 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7756161M
- ISBN-139780691009193
- ISBN-100691009198
- OCLC Control Number40954180
- OCLC Control Numberchesapeakeinvade00poag
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99024115
- LibraryThing693924
- WikidataQ59782744
- Goodreads1332783
Classifications
- LCCQE613.5.C48P6 1999
Description
"Thirty-five million years ago, a meteorite three miles wide and moving sixty times faster than a bullet slammed into the seabed near what is now Chesapeake Bay. The impact, more powerful than the combined explosion of every nuclear bomb on Earth, blasted out a crater fifty miles wide and one mile deep. Shock waves radiated through the Earth for thousands of miles, shaking the foundations of the Appalachians, as gigantic waves and winds of white-hot debris transformed the eastern seaboard into a lifeless wasteland. Chesapeake Invader is the story of this cataclysm, told by the man who discovered it happened. Wylie Poag, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, explains when and why the catastrophe occurred, what destruction it caused, how scientists unearthed evidence of the impact, and how the meteorite's effects are felt even today."--BOOK JACKET.
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