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The Meteorite & tektite collector's handbook : a practical guide to their acquisition, preservation and display
- Title
- The Meteorite & tektite collector's handbook : a practical guide to their acquisition, preservation and display / Philip M. Bagnall.
- Author
- Bagnall, Philip M.
- Publication
- Richmond, Va. : Willmann-Bell, ©1991.
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Details
- Description
- x, 160 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs and collections.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-148) and indexes.
- Contents
- THE METEORITOPHILES -- SOURCES OF METEORITES: Commercial sources -- Private sources -- Falls -- The recovery of meteorites from predicted impact sites -- Finds -- Craters and crater fields -- Legal ownership -- COMPOSITION: Isomorphism and polymorphism -- Minerals -- Isotopes and meteorite age -- Do meteorites smell? - an aside -- STRUCTURE AND APPERANCE: External Features -- Internal Features -- THE CLASSIFICATION OF METEORITES: Modified classification system -- Stones -- Stony-Irons -- Irons -- THE FINER POINTS OF METEORITE COLLECTING: The identification of meteorite -- Preservation -- Display methods -- Taking a closer look -- Keeping records -- TEKTITES: History -- Locations -- Appearance -- Structure and composition -- Collecting tektites -- The origin of tektites-an aside.
- ISBN
- 094339631X
- 9780943396316
- LCCN
- 90025854
- OCLC
- ocm22859077
- 22859077
- SCSB-8981643
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library