| Description |
1 online resource |
|
data file rda |
| Summary |
The gear and techniques necessary for finding, identifying, and photographing micrometeorites. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
|
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: An Unexpected Discovery -- Part 1. Micrometeorites Everywhere -- What Is a Spherule? -- Searching for the Right Place -- Part 2. Seven Steps to Heaven -- Cleaning the Sample: Flotation -- Rinsing and Fractioning the Sample -- Part 3. Your Physical Collection -- Microscopy and Handling -- Curating Your Collection -- Experimental Fieldwork -- Part 4. What We Find in the Dust -- The Micrometeorites -- Barred Olivine -- Cryptocrystalline -- Porphyritic Olivine -- Glass -- Scoriaceous -- G-Type -- Other Types -- Extraterrestrial, But Not Micrometeorites -- Ablation Spherules |
|
Enigmatic Chondrules -- Industrial Spherules -- Magnetic I-Type -- Massive Iron -- Nuggets, Beads and Cores -- From the Welding Shop -- From Sparks -- Nonmagnetic Glass -- From Steam Locomotives -- Mineral Wool -- From Fireworks -- Black Magnetic (Asphalt) -- From Roof Tiles and Shingles -- Traces of Man -- Other Types -- Naturally Occurring Spherules -- Rounded Mineral Grains -- Magnetite -- Fulgurites -- Organic Confusion -- Microtektites and Microkrystites -- Lonar Crater Spherules -- Volchovites: A Russian Mystery -- Iberulites -- Ooids and Pisoids -- Pele's Tears -- Road-Dust Crystals -- Part 5. Verify, Classify, Photograph -- Micrometeorite Verification and Photography -- Origin, Formation, Influx and Classification -- Photographing Micrometeorites |
| Subject |
Meteorites -- Identification.
|
|
Rocks -- Identification.
|
|
Rocks. (OCoLC)fst01099409
|
|
Meteorites. (OCoLC)fst01018361
|
|
Rocks -- Identification.
(OCoLC)fst01099435
|
| Genre/Form |
Field guides. (OCoLC)fst01940354
|
| Added Title |
On the trail of star dust |
|
Guide to finding micrometeorites |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Larsen, Jon, 1959- On the trail of stardust. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Voyageur Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2019 9780760364581 (DLC) 2018051038 (OCoLC)1077668108 |
| ISBN |
9780760364598 (electronic book) |
|
0760364591 (electronic book) |
|
