35 Seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites (1976-2010)

35 Seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites (1976-2010)

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  • Author: Kevin Righter
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1118798325
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 315

The US Antarctic meteorite collection exists due to a cooperative program involving the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Smithsonian Institution. Since 1976, meteorites have been collected by a NSF-funded field team, shipped for curation, characterization, distribution, and storage at NASA, and classified and stored for long term at the Smithsonian. It is the largest collection in the world with many significant samples including lunar, martian, many interesting chondrites and achondrites, and even several unusual one-of-a-kind meteorites from as yet unidentified parent bodies. Many Antarctic meteorites have helped to define new meteorite groups. No previous formal publication has covered the entire collection, and an overall summary of its impact and significant samples has been lacking. In addition, available statistics for the collection are out of date and need to be updated for the use of the community. 35 seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites (1976-2011): A Pictorial Guide to the Collection is the first comprehensive volume that portrays the most updated key significant meteoritic samples from Antarctica. 35 seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites presents a broad overview of the program and collection nearly four decades after its beginnings. The collection has been a consistent and reliable source of astromaterials for a large, diverse, and active scientific community. Volume highlights include: Overview of the history, field practices, curation approaches Special focus on specific meteorite types and the impact of the collection on understanding these groups (primitive chondrites, differentiated meteorites, lunar and martian meteorites) Role of Antarctic meteorites in influencing the determination of space and terrestrial exposure ages for meteorites Statistical summary of the collection by year, region, meteorite type, as well as a comparison to modern falls and hot desert finds The central portion of the book features 80 color plates each of which highlights more influential and interesting samples from the collection. 35 seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites would be of special interest to a multidisciplinary audience in meteoritics, including advanced graduate students and geoscientists specializing in mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, astronomy, near-earth object science, astrophysics, and astrobiology.


Summon the Seasons

Summon the Seasons

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  • Author: Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
  • Publisher: Solar Unicorn Publishing
  • ISBN: 1944437061
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

The conclusion of The Season Avatars fantasy series! Kay might be the youngest, smallest, and least confident Season Avatar, but her weather magic makes her the most powerful of her group. Now that she also can contact the souls of dead Avatars, her quartet has a chance to end Chaos Season permanently. All Kay and her sister Avatars need are three more bones. To obtain them, Kay’s quartet must travel across Challen, evading the King’s Watch and Selathens who want to protect their demigoddess, Salth, creator of Chaos Season. Kay’s deepest beliefs about her God and her longtime rival, Dorian, will be challenged during the trip. If she loses her faith and newfound courage, she will fail, and the rest of the Season Avatars with her.


Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity

Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity

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  • Author: Aliza Steinberg
  • Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 1789693225
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

This book, copiously illustrated throughout, studies the garments and their accessories worn by some 245 figures represented on approximately 41 mosaic floors (some only partially preserved) that once decorated both public and private structures within the historical-geographical area of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity.


The History of Java

The History of Java

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  • Author: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Java (Indonesia)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 534


A Season for Every Purpose

A Season for Every Purpose

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  • Author: Brad Williams
  • Publisher: Xulon Press
  • ISBN: 1602664781
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 134

"A Season for Every Purpose" will enable the reader to understand his current season and receive all that God desires to give in a bountiful harvest. (Practical Life)


Exploring Stone Walls

Exploring Stone Walls

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  • Author: Robert Thorson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0802719260
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

The only field guide to stone walls in the Northeast. Exploring Stone Walls is like being in Thorson's geology classroom, as he presents the many clues that allow you to determine any wall's history, age, and purpose. Thorson highlights forty-five places to see interesting and noteworthy walls, many of which are in public parks and preserves, from Acadia National Park in Maine to the South Fork of Long Island. Visit the tallest stone wall (Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island), the most famous (Robert Frost's mending wall in Derry, New Hampshire), and many more. This field guide will broaden your horizons and deepen your appreciation of New England's rural history.


A Season of Fruit

A Season of Fruit

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  • Author: Ian Pinto
  • Publisher: Think Tank Books
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 63

Life is full of experiences. Some experiences help us grow while others leave a scar. Experiences are beyond our control; we cannot choose, for the most part, what will happen to us. What we can choose, however, is how we react to our experiences. It is easy to enjoy good things and be thankful for them but what about challenges and difficulties? Can we be thankful for them too? We can! We need to have a positive attitude and possess the willingness to face the negative experience and try and find out the good that is hidden inside it. This book is an attempt to reflect critically on my experiences in the past year. The last year of my life has been a rollercoaster year with highs and lows. I enjoyed the good times and felt bad about the not-so-good times. This book is my attempt to face all my experiences and see God's guiding hand through them. There is lots I learnt through the good times and the bad, and I don't want to waste my learnings so I put them down in poetry so that they will remain as a souvenir of a year well spent.


Oceanography And Marine Biology

Oceanography And Marine Biology

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  • Author: Harold Barnes
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 1482267268
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 688

A good quality annual review series that provides an important service to the sciences for both the general and the specialist reader. Oceanography and Marine Biology has succeeded in producing one admirably for more than 35 years. The quality of the paper, the printing and the presentation is excellent.--Times Higher Education Supplement


Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1186

The Nineteenth century and after (London)


Mountain Craft

Mountain Craft

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  • Author: Various Authors
  • Publisher: Good Press
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 405

"Mountain Craft" written by Various and edited by Geoffrey Winthrop Young was a seminal piece of reference material for climbers in the 1900s. Unlike many mountain books at the time, this wasn't meant to be a climbing guide. It was meant to teach you all about mountaineering. It was written and edited with a passion for the activity and it resonates with other such adventurous souls.