Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters.
Minneapolis :
Voyageur Press,
2017.
1 online resource (155 pages)
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; The Stardust Project; Verification of Micrometeorites; Origin, Formation, Influx, and Classification; l MICROMETEORITES; Scanning-Electron Micrographs; The New Collection; II EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPHERULES; Ablation Spherules; The Enigmatic Chondrules; III ANTHROPOGENIC SPHERULES; I-Type Magnetic Spherules; Massive Iron Spherules; Nuggets, Beads, and Cores; From the Welding Shop; Sparks; Nonmagnetic Glass Spherules; Spherules from a Steam Locomotive; Mineral Wool; A Case Study of Anthropogenic Spherules; Fireworks; Black Magnetic Spherules.
Roof Tiles and ShinglesMetallic Carbon Cinder; Red Scoriaceous Spherules; Traces of Man; Other Types of Spherules; IV TERRESTRIAL OBJECTS; Rounded Mineral Grains; Magnetite; Fulgurites; Organic Confusion; Microtektites and Microkrystites; Lonar Crater Spherules; Darwin Glass; Volchovites-A Russian Mystery; Iberulites; Ooids And Pisoids; Pele's Tears-Achneliths; Road Dust Crystals; Thanks; Tabula Gratulatoria; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y.
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In Search of Stardust is the first comprehensive popular science book about micrometeorites. It's illustrated with 1,500 previously unpublished images from high-resolution color microscopes and scanning electron microscopes.
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In Search of Stardust : Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters.