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"A light-handed tale of scientific exploration, fascinating as living theater, where the daily grind has a chance to reval more cosmic thrummings... All this Poag relates with clipped vibrancy, and it makes for riveting reading."--Kirkus Reviews "Poag does a good job of making his text accessible to a lay audience and ofexplaining why it is important to study such a phenomena as this rater"--Library Journal

Table of Contents
Preface ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE Telltales 3 CHAPTER TWO Microfossil Magic 20 CHAPTER THREE Tektites 29 CHAPTER FOUR Toms Canyon 42 CHAPTER FIVE Super Tsunami 50 CHAPTER SIX Chesapeake Crater Revealed 53 CHAPTER SEVEN Proof in the Pudding 57 CHAPTER EIGHT A Perilous Path 67 CHAPTER NINE Mass Extinctions 80 CHAPTER TEN Eocene Environments 90 CHAPTER ELEVEN Sinking Sand 104 CHAPTER TWELVE Threatened Ground Waters 115 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Faulty Floor 123 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Seaward Explorer 127 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Buried Treasure 138 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Subterranean Waste 143 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Chicken Little's Dilemma 147 Glossary 157 Suggestions for Fuither Reading 163 Recommended Sites on the World Wide Web 165 Index 167

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9780691603063, 978-0691603063
      ISBN10: 0691603065

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A light-handed tale of scientific exploration, fascinating as living theater, where the daily grind has a chance to reval more cosmic thrummings... All this Poag relates with clipped vibrancy, and it makes for riveting reading."--Kirkus Reviews "Poag does a good job of making his text accessible to a lay audience and ofexplaining why it is important to study such a phenomena as this rater"--Library Journal

      Table of Contents
      Preface ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE Telltales 3 CHAPTER TWO Microfossil Magic 20 CHAPTER THREE Tektites 29 CHAPTER FOUR Toms Canyon 42 CHAPTER FIVE Super Tsunami 50 CHAPTER SIX Chesapeake Crater Revealed 53 CHAPTER SEVEN Proof in the Pudding 57 CHAPTER EIGHT A Perilous Path 67 CHAPTER NINE Mass Extinctions 80 CHAPTER TEN Eocene Environments 90 CHAPTER ELEVEN Sinking Sand 104 CHAPTER TWELVE Threatened Ground Waters 115 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Faulty Floor 123 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Seaward Explorer 127 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Buried Treasure 138 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Subterranean Waste 143 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Chicken Little's Dilemma 147 Glossary 157 Suggestions for Fuither Reading 163 Recommended Sites on the World Wide Web 165 Index 167

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