Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
by Chris Pellant
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Author: Chris PellantEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09-01
ISBN: 0789491060
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: DK ADULT
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Summary: 3 Stars
This is a colorful book and an acceptable reference for the collector building a collection although it has some incorrect information. Example: The author's classification of a tektite as "terrestrial"--the conventional wisdom, which says that these natural glassy stones are formed as impact melts, is dead wrong! Charles Darwin was right back in 1844 when he described tektites as volcanic (although Darwin assumed them to be from terrestrial eruptions). Tektites are from the Moon! A hypervelocity impact happens too quickly to produce the "good," bubble-free glass of a tektite; and the nearly waterless tektite is as dry as the Moon's surface (the silicate roots of a tektite are igenous/granitic and assuredly not sedimentary as the author notes!). The intricate research of NASA's J.A. O'Keefe, P. Lowman, W. Cameron, and D. Chapman in the 1960s and '70s (and current researcher D. Futrell), demonstrate conclusively that tektites are extraterrestri! al and of lunar volcanic origin.
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