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11 . R. S. Dietz, “The Meteoritic Impact Origin of the Moon's Surface Features,” Journal of
Geology (1946).
12 . See the discussion following W. I. Manton, “The Orientation and Origin of Shatter Cones
in the Vredefort Ring,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 123, no. 2 (2006): 1049.
13 . W. H. Bucher, “Cryptoexplosion Structures Caused from Without or from Within the
Earth? (“Astroblemes” or “Geoblemes?”),” American Journal of Science 261, no. 7 (1963): 643.
Rosetta Stone
1 . R. B. Baldwin, “An Overview of Impact Cratering,” Meteoritics 13 (1978): 368.
2 . Ibid., 369.
3 . R. B. Baldwin, “The Meteoritic Origin of Lunar Craters,” Popular Astronomy 50 (1942).
4 . R. B. Baldwin, The Face of the Moon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949), 135.
5 . H. C. Urey, The Planets (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1952).
6 . D. H. Levy, Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 2002).
7 . For another account of Shoemaker's life and career, especially as it relates to space explor-
ation, see D. E. Wilhelms, To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration (Tuc-
son: University of Arizona Press, 1993).
8 . W. H. Bucher, “The Largest So-Called Meteorite Scars in Three Continents as Demon-
strably Tied to Major Terrestrial Structures,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 123,
no. 2 (1965).
9 . Ibid., 902-903.
10 . https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_37207.htm .
11 . Account drawn from Levy, Shoemaker by Levy ; and Wilhelms, To a Rocky Moon .
12 . J. Emsley, Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2011), 119.
13 . W. E. Elston, “Water Bucher's Last Field Trip and Conversion to the Impact Origin of
Meteor Crater: A Tribute to an Open Mind,” paper presented at the 2002 Denver Annual Meet-
ing.
To a Rocky Moon
The title of this chapter is also the title of an excellent topic by Don Wilhelms.
1 . http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm .
2 . E. M. Shoemaker et al., Interplanetary Correlation of Geologic Time (Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1961).
3 . W. K. Hartmann, “Terrestrial and Lunar Flux of Large Meteorites in the Last Two Billion
Years,” Icarus 4, no. 2 (1965): 164.
4 . D. E. Wilhelms, To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1993), 138.
5 . Ibid., 143.
Worlds in Collision