Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater

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Thirty-five million years ago, a meteorite three miles wide and moving sixty times faster than a bullet slammed into the sea bed 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 th

"A light-handed tale of scientific exploration, fascinating as living theater, where the daily grind has a chance to reval more cosmic thrummings... All this Poag relates with clipped vibrancy, and it makes for riveting reading."--Kirkus Reviews "Poag does a good job of making his text accessible to a lay audience and ofexplaining why it is important to study such a phenomena as this rater"--Library Journal