Research Catalog

Title

Shock metamorphism of natural materials; proceedings. Edited by: Bevan M. French [and] Nicholas M. Short.

Author

Conference on Shock Metamorphism of Natural Materials (1st : 1966 : Goddard Space Flight Center)

Publication

Baltimore, Mono Book Corp., 1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

• French, Bevan M.
• Short, Nicholas M.
• Goddard Space Flight Center.

Description

ix, 644 pages illustrations; 28 cm

Subject

• Metamorphism (Geology) > Congresses
• Meteorite craters > Congresses
• Rock deformation > Congresses
• Metamorphism (Geology)
• Meteorite craters
• Rock deformation
• ROCKS
• DEFORMATION
• METAMORPHISM
• CONFERENCES

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Shock metamorphism as a geological process / Bevan M. French -- Shock waves in solids / George E. Duvall -- Intense destructive stresses resulting from stress wave interactions / John S. Rinehart -- Phase equilibrium data bearing on the pressure and temperature of shock metamorphism / Peter M. Bell and F.R. Boyd -- Static P-V curves of cracked and consolidated earth materials to 40 kilobars / D.R. Stephens and E.M. Lilley -- Shock metamorphism : experiments on quartz and plagioclase / Thomas J. Ahrens and J. Thomas Rosenberg -- Gas equation of state of natural materials / T.R. Butkovich -- Impact cratering mechanics and structures / Donald E. Gault, William L. Quaide, and Verne R. Oberbeck -- Shock crater ejecta characteristics / Wayne A. Roberts -- Structure of the Henbury meteorite craters, Australia / Daniel J. Milton -- Meteorite impact craters at Campo del Cielo, Argentina / William A. Cassidy -- Observations of the effects of explosive shock on crystalline solids / Paul S. De Carli -- Pressure and temperature histories of impact metamorphosed rocks -- based on petrographic observations / E.C.T. Chao -- Stages of shock metamorphism in the crystalline rocks of the Ries basin, Germany / W. v. Engelhardt and D. Stöffler -- Shock zoning at Canadian craters : petrography and structural implications / M.R. Dence -- Nuclear-explosion-induced microdeformation of rocks : an aid to the recognition of meteorite impact structures / Nicholas M. Short -- Shock deformation of biotite around a nuclear explosion / David Cummings -- Experimental microdeformation of rock materials by shock pressures from laboratory-scale impacts and explosions / Nicholas M. Short -- Statistical measurements of deformation structures and refractive indices in experimentally shock loaded quartz / Friedrich Hörz -- A worldwide inventory of features characteristic of rocks associated with presumed meteorite impact craters / Nicholas M. Short and T.E. Bunch -- Shatter cones in cryptoexplosion structures / Robert S. Dietz -- Shatter cones in the Danny Boy nuclear crater (short note) / T.E. Bunch and W.L. Quaide -- Striated cones : wind-abrasion features, not shatter cones / Wolfgang E. Elston, Paul Wayne Lambert, and Eugene I. Smith -- The Flynn Creek crater, Tennessee / David J. Roddy -- The Wells Creek structure, Tennessee / Richard G. Stearns [and others] -- Recent geological and geophysical studies of Canadian craters / M.R. Dence, M J.S. Innes, and P.B. Robertson -- Impact metamorphism at Clearwater Lake, Quebec / Donald B. McIntyre -- Evidence of shock metamorphism in rocks from the Steen River structure, Alberta / Maurice A. Carrigy ; with an appendix by Nicholas M. Short -- A note on shock metamorphism in the Carswell circular structure, Saskatchewan / K.L. Currie -- Sudbury structure, Ontario : some petrographic evidence for an origin by meteorite impact / Bevan M. French -- Some characteristics of selected minerals from craters / T.E. Bunch -- Deformation in rock-forming minerals from Canadian craters / P.B. Robertson, M.R. Dence, and M.A. Vos -- Dynamic deformation of quartz / Neville L. Carter -- Observations on quartz deformation in the breccias of West Clearwater Lake, Canada, and the Ries basin, Germany / W. v. Engelhardt [and others] -- Shock-wave damage in quartz as revealed by electron and incident-light microscopy / Charles B. Sclar, Nicholas M. Short, and George C. Cocks -- A study of quartz subfabrics from the Brent crater, Ontario / D.P. Gold -- Shock-induced structural disorder in plagioclase and quartz / T.E. Bunch, Alvin J. Cohen, and M.R. Dence -- The structural state of potash feldspar : a possible criterion for meteorite impact / F.K. Aitken and D.P. Gold -- The opaque minerals in impactite glasses / Ahmed El Goresy -- Experimental and analytical studies of crystalline damage useful for the recognition of impact structures / Frank Dachille, Paul Gigl, and P.Y. Simons -- Shock effects in iron meteorites : a review / M.E. Lipschutz -- The mechanical and thermal alteration of iron meteorite structures / H.J. Axon, J. Boustead, and E.D. Yardley -- Impact-induced deformation in the Campo del Cielo meteorite / T.E. Bunch and William A. Cassidy -- The Shergotty meteorite : magmatic and shock metamorphic features / Michael B. Duke.

LCCN

68059422

OCLC

• ocm00533443
• 533443
• SCSB-303631

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library