African Meteorites

Abderrahmane Ibhi, Giorgio S. Senesi, Lahcen Ouknine, Abderrahmane Ibhi, Giorgio S. Senesi, Lahcen Ouknine

• Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9789815136319
• eBook ISBN: 9789815136296
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Mineralogy

African Meteorites is a comprehensive exploration of meteorite falls and finds across the arid and hot regions of the African continent, offering profound insights into a significant collection of meteorites, second only to Antarctica. The book is divided into seven chapters, covering the origin and formation of meteorites, statistical analyses of meteorite falls in African countries, classes and mass distribution of meteorite finds, allocation and renaming of North West African (NWA) meteorites, exceptional and rare meteorite falls and finds in Eastern Morocco Sahara, protocols for recognizing, recovering, and preserving meteorites in Sahara, and a review of confirmed and proposed meteorite falls, finds, and impact structures in Egypt, Sudan, and Libya. With detailed and updated references complementing the simple presentation, this book is an invaluable resource for meteoriticists, hunters, museums, astronomers, students, and geology and astronomy enthusiasts, on the origin, characteristics, and collection of meteorites discovered in Africa. Key Themes: Meteorite origin, formation, and classification
Meteorite falls and finds in Africa
Unique features of North West Africa (NWA) meteorites
Rare and exceptional meteorite falls and finds in Eastern Morocco Sahara
Protocols for recognizing and preserving meteorites in the Sahara
Meteorite falls, finds, and impact structures in Egypt, Sudan, and Libya
Readership: Meteoriticists, geologists, mineralogists, historians, researchers and general readers.

Table of contents

• Welcome
• Table of Content
• Title
• BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS LTD.
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• List of Contributors
• INTRODUCTION
• Basic Issues on Meteorites: Origin, Formation, Identification, Nomenclature
• Meteorite Falls in Africa
• Meteorite Finds in Africa
• Meteorites of Northwest Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Mali, Mauritania
• Meteorites of Morocco: Falls and Finds
• Meteorites of Sahara
• Meteorite Falls, Finds and Impact Craters in North East Africa: Egypt, Sudan and Libya
• Conclusion