Meteoritos y sus propiedades


X. Artículos relacionados y libros de interés

Artículos

Meteoritos en general

U.B. Marvin (Mayo 1986) Meteorites, the Moon and the history of geology, Journal of Geological Education, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 140-165.

K.F. Weaver (Septiembre 1986) Meteorites: Invaders from space, National Geographic, v. 170, no. 3, pp. 390-418.

Cráteres en general

R.A.F. Grieve (April 1990) Impact cratering on the Earth, Scientific American, vol. 262, no. 4, pp. 66-73.

Meteor Crater, Arizona

E.M. Shoemaker (1987) Meteor Crater, Arizona, en Centennial Field Guide, vol. 2, Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America (ed. S.S. Beus), pp. 399-404. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.

D.A. Kring (1997) Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol. 32, pp. 517-530.

Extinciones en masa

W. Alvarez y F. Asaro (October 1990) An extraterrestrial impact: Accumulating evidence suggests an asteroid or comet caused the Cretaceous extinction, Scientific American, vol. 263, no. 4, pp. 78-84.

W. Glen (Julio-Agosto 1990) What killed the dinosaurs?, American Scientist, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 354-370.

Libros

Meteoritos en general

R.T. Dodd (1986) Thunderstones and Shooting Stars, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 196p.

R. Hutchison (1983) The Search for Our Beginning, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 164p.

H. Y. McSween, Jr. (1987) Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 237p.

J.T. Wasson (1985) Meteorites: Their Record of Early Solar-System History, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 267p.

J.A. Wood (1968) Meteorites and the Origin of Planets, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 117p. (Este libro está agotado, pero quizá lo encuentre en alguna biblioteca).

Cráteres en general

K. Mark (1987) Meteorite Craters, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 288p.

Meteoritos de Tucson

R.R. Willey (1987) The Tucson Meteorites: Their History from Frontier Arizona to the Smithsonian, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 47p.

Meteor Crater, Arizona

W.G. Hoyt (1987) Coon Mountain Controversies: Meteor Crater and the Development of Impact Theory, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 442p.

Extinciones en masa

K.J. Hsü (1986) The Great Dying, Ballantine Books (1988 paperback version), New York, 288p.

D.M. Raup (1991) Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 210p.


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