The Manson Impact Structure, Iowa

The Manson Impact Structure, Iowa
Author: Christian Koeberl
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1996
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813723027

Twenty-two reports presenting results from the investigation samples of the Manson impact structure, a crater site in Iowa that was not discovered until 1992. The reports cover a great deal of ground, including geophysical studies of the crater structure, detailed mineralogical, petrological, and ge

Range Wars

Range Wars
Author: Ryan H. Edgington
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0803255632

Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capabilities. In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II—as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the cold war but also by regional history, culture, and traditions.

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution
Author: B. O. Dressier
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813722934

Comprises 28 papers which grew out of the International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution, August/September, 1992 in Sudbury, Ontario. The interdisciplinary papers, encompassing diverse studies from trace element geochemistry to planetary exploration, are arranged into f