1st Edition
From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective Impact Crater Research in Germany, 1930s-1970s
Preface; Introducing the smoking gun; Early impactists and their sources; Dismissing impact I; A letter from Berlin; Kaalijärv Crater and Köfels landslide; Impact physics - beyond human imagination; ‘German geology’; Setting the stage; The tide is turning; Dismissing impact II; Testing an old theory; Ries Crater - a terrestrial proxy for the Moon; From local patriotism to a planetary perspective; Glossary; References; Index.
Biography
Dr Martina Kölbl-Ebert is director of the Jura-Museum Eichstätt and curator of the natural history collections of the Bishop’s Seminary in Eichstätt, Germany. Her principal research interests are in the history of geosciences.
"This work is probably best described as an important contribution to the literature and a highly readable academic monograph (...) it is a vital resource for historians of the twentieth-century geosciences, as well as anyone interested in the cultural and social contexts that constrain science, offering as it does an excellent analysis in English of a global scientific debate centred on German ideas and geology."
- Leucha Veneer in Archives of Natural History, 2017
