BOOKLET

"Australia's Meteorite Craters"
by Alex Bevan and Ken McNamara
published by the Western Australian Museum, Perth 1993
27 pages

This booklet may be purchased from the

Western Australian Museum
Francis St, Perth
Western Australia 6000
(ISBN 0 7309 5926 0)

A booklet with black and white and some colour images of some of the meteorite craters discovered in Australia. A centre spread contains a map showing most of the Australian craters currently believed to be due to hypervelocity cosmic impacts.

Contents are listed under the headings:

Preface
Introduction
Discovery and Ancient Beliefs
Anatomy of a Crater
A Meteoritic Fingerprint
How was Wolfe Creek Crater Formed?
Australia's Impact Record
Target Earth
Can It Happen Again?
Selected Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Terms

A good compact introduction to Australia's Meteorite Craters.