Meteorites: A Petrologic, Chemical and Isotopic Synthesis (Cambridge Planetary Science)
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Meteorites: A Petrologic, Chemical and Isotopic Synthesis (Cambridge Planetary Science)
Robert Hutchison
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ASIN: 0521035392

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Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the Solar System. This book considers the mechanism and timing of core formation and basaltic volcanism on asteroids, and the effects of heating water-rich bodies. Results from meteorite research are placed in a galactic setting, and a theory is proposed for the origin of the planets of our Solar System. This advanced yet succinct introduction classifies meteorites in the context of their ages and origin.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the only professional comprehensive meteorite books.......2000-02-14

This book is an invaluable source of information for the professional, and is also useful for those who have some background in geology. I've had this book checked out of the library for 2 years! It's time to get my own copy!

4 out of 5 stars recommended by NASA for meteorite thin section analysis.......1999-08-31

If the person from Canada thought "it bit", perhaps they he would like to sell it to someone that finds the information invaluable. No other book published before or since focuses on the subject better!

1 out of 5 stars It Bites!.......1999-01-13

I learned nothing form this book
Introduction to Planetary Science: The Geological Perspective
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    Introduction to Planetary Science: The Geological Perspective
    Gunter Faure , and Teresa, M. Mensing
    Manufacturer: Springer
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    ASIN: 1402052332

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    This textbook is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students majoring in Earth Sciences. Planetary science provides an opportunity for these students to apply a wide range of subject matter pertaining to the Earth to the study of other planets and their principal satellites. In this way, planetary science tends to unify subjects in the Earth Sciences that are traditionally taught separately. Therefore, planetary science is well-suited to be taught as a capstone course for senior undergraduates in geology departments and as an introduction to the solar system in astronomy departments. Both groups of students will benefit because planetary science bridges the gap between geology and astronomy and it prepares geologists and astronomers to participate actively in the on-going exploration of the solar system.

    The subject matter is presented in 24 chapters that lead the reader through the solar system starting with historical perspectives on space exploration and the development of the scientific method. The presentations concerning the planets and their satellites emphasize that their origin and subsequent evolution can be explained by applications of certain basic principles of physics, chemistry, and celestial mechanics and that the surface features of the solid bodies in the solar system can be interpreted by means of the principles of geology.

    Dana's New Mineralogy: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana
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    • Desperately needs larger font and photos.
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    • Comprehensive, essential mineral species reference
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    Dana's New Mineralogy: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana
    Richard V. Gaines , H. Catherine W. Skinner , Eugene E. Foord , Brian Mason , and Abraham Rosenzweig
    Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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    ASIN: 0471193100

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    Following in the tradition of the "System of Mineralogy" introduced by Wiley in 1837, this one-of-a-kind reference brings mineralogy into the 21st century. It describes all of the over 3700 recognized mineral species. New features include emphasis on mineral structure, presenting descriptions of all the important species. New specially commissioned structure diagrams describe all the important mineral groups. All homologous species are classified and all polymorphic forms identified. Compact and convenient in one volume, it offers exceptional coverage on where minerals can be found and accurate, up-to-date references.

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars Desperately needs larger font and photos........2006-06-24

    I am a geologist, but for heaven's sake, pics at least as good as a cheap field guide would be in order, especially for some of the more unusual minerals. Would also love to see some of the zillions of examples of granites that you can find at your average kitchen type granite center. The geology though is good, just a bit dry.

    1 out of 5 stars Do yourself a favor - don't buy this book.......2004-05-06

    I think the Danas would be embarrassed if they lived to see their name on the cover of this book - probably the worst compendium of mineralogical data in the history of science. Here, inaccuracies and errors are the norm rather than exception, and the quality of print and paper are no match even to a circa-1900 missionary's Bible. Sloppy sources like this one do more harm than good by perpetuating errors and introducing new ones, so do yourself a favor and spend your hard-earned $350 on something else.

    3 out of 5 stars Long-awaited reference needs work.......2000-09-01

    As a professional geologist, I use this reference often but I have found numerous errors. An example is that the mineral Pentlandite, an important ore of nickel, is not listed in the index. A German website is compiling an errata list on this book and it is many pages long of spelling, locality, formulae and indices errors. Other complaints are: The information concerning the economic use of the minerals is too sketchy and incomplete; and the page paper is too thin and fragile.

    4 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, essential mineral species reference.......1999-08-07

    I use the book almost daily while working on a large mineral collection. It is up to date and comprehensive with valuable references to localities. The book is fragile with thin pages so must be used with care. It should be published as a CD ROM.

    3 out of 5 stars Is the publisher nuts?.......1999-07-12

    I can't believe that John Wiley & Sons (the publisher) actually tries to sell this book as "compact". It's 1100 pages! The Peterson Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals is a much better "compact" guide. This thing should really be on CD-ROM.
    Meteorites and their Parent Planets
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    • One of the best books on the subject
    • Fascinating - I was amazed at the power of geochemistry
    • A great book which I highly recommend!!!
    • Great book for beginners and experienced collectors
    Meteorites and their Parent Planets
    Harry Y. McSween
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    ASIN: 0521587514

    Book Description

    Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field--the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the nature of meteorites, where they come from, and how they get to Earth. Meteorites offer important insights into processes in stars and in interstellar regions, the birth of our solar system, the formation and evolution of planets and smaller bodies, and the origin of life. The first edition was immensely popular with meteorite collectors, scientists and science students in many fields, as well as amateur astronomers. In this second edition all of the illustrations have been updated and improved, many sections have been expanded and modified based on discoveries in the past decade, and a new final chapter on the importance of meteorites has been added. Everyone with an interest in meteorites will want a copy of this book.

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    5 out of 5 stars Outstanding resource.......2007-03-09

    I both collect meteorites and give talks about them throughout the U.S. I am always looking for good books on meteorites that I can recommend to those who attend my presentations. Norton's books, as well as McSween's, are the best. It's chock full of very interesting information that has been abstracted from research journals and put into language that non-specialists can understand. It's by no means a beginners book, but one that you'd want to read after the more superficial ones.

    The main theme is, of course, identifying the parent planets and asteroids for the classifications of meteorite. McSween provides his readers with the most up-to-date information, by 1999 standards, and when there is no agreement, he offers us his best opinion.

    The book is organized by first providing a good overview of meteoronics in general. Then he addresses chondrites in Chapter 2, followed by a chapter related to possible parent bodies for the chondrites discussed. Ch 4 and 5 do the same for achondrites, and Chs 6 and 7 for Irons and Stony-Irons. The final two chapters get into subjects such as the geography of teh asteroidal belt and Kirkwood gaps, resonance, fractionations, and so forth -- this is the discussion that will interest those who have been involved with meteors for awhile.

    I highly recommend the book and hope that he updates it in the near future. It has a 1999 date -- 8 years ago from this review. I'd love to read a third edition.

    5 out of 5 stars One of the best books on the subject.......1999-12-03

    Really a MUST-have for the serious meteorite collector. Lots of scientifical informations, but very readable.

    5 out of 5 stars Fascinating - I was amazed at the power of geochemistry.......1999-09-24

    I'm a geologist who loves to find good summaries of geology / planetary science topics, and "Meteorites and their Parent Planets" is one of the best I've found. While I've always been more interested in "geometric" topics like structural geology, McSween's book made geochemistry and cosmochemistry come alive like I'd never imagined. He weaves a fascinating tale of the amazing deductions that have been made from analyses of meteorites. "Compositional" sciences like petrology and geochemistry used to make my eyes glaze over, but now I think that if I had it to do over again, I might go into geochemistry or meteoritics! I look forward to reading McSween's other books.

    5 out of 5 stars A great book which I highly recommend!!!.......1999-03-20

    Informative reading and great photos. This book makes a great addition to your meteorite book library.

    5 out of 5 stars Great book for beginners and experienced collectors.......1999-02-16

    I think that this book is very well written and easy for the beginner to understand. Lots of great information.
    Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters
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    • Traveling in Russia and Fascinating Facts about Meteorites
    Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters
    Roy A. Gallant
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    ASIN: 0071372245

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    The "Indiana Jones of Astronomy" takes readers on a fascinating hunt for scientific treasures

    On the morning of June 30, 1908, a comet nucleus or stony asteroid weighing 100,000 metric tons exploded four miles above the remote Siberian region of Tunguska with a force hundreds of times greater than the blast that destroyed Hiroshima. Eighty-four years later, American astronomer Roy Gallant was invited by the Russian Academy of Sciences to participate in its annual Tunguska Expedition.

    Gallant was the first American to take part in the Russian investigation of the largest meteorite impact in recorded history. So inspired was he by his experiences at Tunguska that he went on to devote the next eight years of his life to investigating and writing about meteorite impact sites around the globe.

    In Meteorite Hunter, Roy Gallant takes readers on a fascinating journey to the major meteorite sites of the wild and desolate Russian interior.

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    4 out of 5 stars Traveling in Russia and Fascinating Facts about Meteorites.......2004-01-26

    I am surprised to see that no one has reviewed this book until now; it's been out for about two years and the title is certainly intriguing. Anyway, this book contains a nearly homogeneous mixture of essentially two seemingly unrelated subjects: (i) traveling within Russia and (ii) information on meteorites. The first is presented as a travelogue; it includes all sorts of little details on travel problems encountered in Russia (political and otherwise), food eaten, people encountered, etc. Interspersed with this, in each chapter, is fascinating information on meteorites, i.e., their origins, types, composition, behavior upon entering the earth's atmosphere and upon impacting the ground, etc. Each chapter addresses a specific meteorite site that was visited by the author, with the exception of the last chapter which is about comets and asteroids that are out in space and that may or may not pose a threat to life (or some of it) on earth. The book is well written and should be of interest to those planning to travel within Russia, as well as those interested in meteorites; and, of course, those interested in both. I gave the book four stars instead of five because, to me, the two subject areas, which may be worth five stars each, detract from each other. For me, the parts about meteorites per se, were great (five stars); but I found the travel information rather cumbersome - hence an overall four stars.
    Catalogue of Meteorites
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Catalogue of Meteorites, Edited by Monica Grady
    • New fifth edition
    Catalogue of Meteorites
    Monica M. Grady
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    ASIN: 0521663032

    Book Description

    `his fifth edition of Catalogue of Meteorites will, like previous editions, be the essential reference volume for all those with an informed interest in meteorites. It is the definitive descriptive list of the British Natural History Museum, which maintains the offical world database of all known meteorite falls and finds. Coverage includes the 10,000 new specimens recovered since the publication of the fourth edition, including those from Antarctica. Plus, for the first time, a CD-ROM accompanies the book, which includes greatly expanded information and an important search facility.

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    5 out of 5 stars Catalogue of Meteorites, Edited by Monica Grady.......2001-02-14

    The Big Blue Book is back. This time around the cover has a close-up photo of olivine laths in a barred olivine chondrule, and at 689 pages, is bigger and better than ever. There is a listing of 22,507 authenticated meteorites up to December 1999 which also come on a CD-ROM.

    The origins of the Catalogue go back to 1847 with a listing of the 62 meteorites of the British Museum. Subsequent periodic updates were issued and in 1923, George Prior, the Keeper of Minerals of the British Museum, issued the first worldwide Catalogue of Meteorites. The well-known 4th edition, edited by Graham, Bevan, and Hutchison was published in 1985.

    The 5th edition not only has ten thousand more meteorites (including such recent discoveries as the Martian Los Angeles meteorite or a Saharan EL4-5 called Grein 002), but it also reflects the multitude of changes that have taken place in the field of meteoritics in the past 15 years. Type 3 chondrites now have petrologic subtypes (3.0 to 3.9), enstatite chondrites are now distinguished as EH or EL, there are new carbonaceous chondrite groups, CH, CK, and CR, as well as the new groupings of acapulcoites, brachinites, rumurutiites and winonaites. The SNCs are now described, perhaps with a bit of British understatement, "probably from Mars". There are also various stylistic changes like dropping the ordinary chondrite terms "bronzite", "hypersthene", and "amphoterite", replacing them simply with H, L, and LL. However, the overall format is the same as the 1985 edition and readers of the latter will be right at home with this one.

    Another new feature to the 2000 edition is the listing of tables of Antarctic meteorites, meteorites from the Nullarbor region, Australia, meteorites from Roosevelt County, New Mexico, and over 1500 meteorites recovered from the Sahara Desert.

    Even some of the citations have changed. For example, the TKW of Nakhla is now 10 kg, due to the research of Kevin Kichinka (Meteorite! Aug. '98) down from the original 40 kg and the infamous phrase, "one of the stones killed a dog", now reads, "one of the stones reputedly killed a dog". Divnoe has been upgraded to an "ungrouped achondrite", and although this reviewer thought it was actually a brachinite, Alan Rubin informs me that Monica is correct. Gao and Guenie have now been amalgamated into the one fall denoted Gao-Guenie. The recently found Nadiabondi individuals have maintained their status under that name even though there was some speculation they might be associated with the Gao-Guenie fall. Apparently not.

    The inclusion of a CD-ROM makes this edition of the CM so much more useful than previous editions and more in keeping with modern databases. Once it is installed on your computer you do not have to put the disk in again as it resident on your harddrive ready to use. You can search for a single entry, or use the data fields to do more complex searches, like finding all CM2 carbonaceous chondrites from Australia (Adelaide, Lookout Hill, Murchison). Filling in the search form is easy and you do not need a manual to run it. You do have to remember to select "valid" from one of the drop down lists as otherwise you get doubtful returns as well. The search speed probably depends on the speed of your computer: my 600 MHz Gateway took about 10 seconds for multiple searches, but was virtually instantaneous if searching for a particular meteorite. The CD-ROM also has more analytical data and more complete reference citations for the researcher than the book itself.

    Of course in any work of this great magnitude, there are a few misprints/glitches, but I won't dwell on these. There are some people who would go to a concert by Heifetz and listen only for the wrong notes (if any!)

    It is entirely fitting that there are meteorites named Grady (p.220). This book represents a prodigious amount of human endeavor, and the meteorite community owes Monica Grady an enormous debt of gratitude. If you are a serious amateur or a professional, you will want to have this book.

    3 out of 5 stars New fifth edition.......2000-10-25

    The enclosed CD-ROM is for PC only. With a MAC version, my rating would be five stars.
    Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems: Applications to Petroleum, Coal, and Uranium Exploration
    Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
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    Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems: Applications to Petroleum, Coal, and Uranium Exploration
    W. E. Galloway , and D. K. Hobday
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    This second edition of Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems bridges the gap between process-related outcrop studies of sedimentary rocks and the three-dimensional subsurface world of the mineral fuel geologist and hydrogeologist. It remains unique in its focus on the application of subsurface facies analysis to problems of petroleum, coal, uranium, and ground water resource discovery, delineation, and production. The text and figures have been rewritten and updated. New chapters summarize applications of sequence stratigraphy to facies analysis and the use of detailed facies interpretation in reservoir and aquifer characterization.

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    2 out of 5 stars Too much information.......2001-02-04

    This is a book packed full of information. Each chapter could be a single book, and that would help, expanding more on the ideas contained within.

    1 out of 5 stars The only textbook I intend to sell back.......2001-01-18

    The lack of organization and lack of a glossary result in a poor textbook. Do not use this as your main source of info when trying to learn about depositional systems- much more understandable books exist.
    Carbonate Platform Systems: Components and Interactions (Geological Society Special Publication)
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      Carbonate Platform Systems: Components and Interactions (Geological Society Special Publication)

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      Carbonate Platform Systems: components and interactions is a collection of 13 papers, plus an introduction, concerning the effects of organism-environment interactions in modern and ancient carbonate platforms, arising from the Lyell Meeting on `Organism-Environment Feedbacks in Carbonate Platforms and Reefs' held at the Geological Society, UK. The papers presented here provide an integrated view of carbonate platforms, emphasizing dynamic interactions at all hierarchical levels and revealing the limitations of uniformitarian analogy in biotically influenced sedimentary systems. Selected case studies from around the world illustrate aspects ranging from the genesis of growth fabrics to changing patterns of carbonate platform development. The text will be of interest to sedimentologists, palaeontologists and marine ecologists alike.

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      Epithermal Gold in the Philippines: Island Arc Metallogenesis, Geothermal Systems and Geology (Academic Press Geology Series)
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        Epithermal Gold in the Philippines: Island Arc Metallogenesis, Geothermal Systems and Geology (Academic Press Geology Series)
        A. H.G. Mitchell , and T. M. Leach
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        This is the first comprehensive account of Philippine gold deposits and geology. Epithermal gold deposits present a major challenge to geologists because the nature of the surface environment beneath which major deposits develop and the regional geological controls by the creation of major deposits remain poorly understood. New ideas on the genus of gold deposits and relationship to Philippine tectonics together with new data on Southeast Asia gold and tectonics are covered.
        Geology EOA Edu-Tutor, Vol. 2: Rocks, Minerals and Resources
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          ASIN: 1552411974

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          Explore the fascinating world of beautiful mineral crystals and learn about the three great rock groups that make up our entire planet - igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Take a close look at the so-called "rocks of fire". Understand the difference between lava and magma, and between rocks that form at the surface and those that form deep within the Earth. Learn how loose bits of rock, soil and organic debris are deposited in layers that eventually form sedimentary rocks that blanket the Earth. Understand how heat, pressure and fluids can change existing rock into metamorphic rock, and about the fascinating new minerals that form. Then shift your focus and discover Earth's bounty of renewable and non-renewable resources - from solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources to fossil fuels. Learn about conservation, reclamation and the 4 "R"s (recycle, reduce, reuse and remember!).

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          5. Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change (3rd Edition)
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          7. Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change (3rd Edition)
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