The Charlevoix Astrobleme

Name: The Charlevoix Astrobleme
Brand: Presses de l'Université Laval
SKU: 9782763738628
Price: 11.97 EUR
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ISBN: 978-2-763-73862-8

de Jean Jean des Gagniers (auteur), Jean des Gagniers (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Presses de l'Université Laval

mai 2018

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Résumé

I’m especially fond of Charlevoix—one of the favourite haunts of my youth. By walking through this region from one hilltop to the next I realized just how vast the St. Lawrence was. I would gaze at its salty waters and the fine line of the horizon, and a desire would well up within me to go farther, beyond the seas, and visit the entire world. "I could hardly suspect that this region would have a direct bearing on my future career as an astrophysicist. Indeed, it bears the mark of an event of extraterrestrial origin: a collision with an asteroid some 400 million years ago. I had no idea back then that the fertile farmland and pastures along the road I was walking on were the result of a meteorite impact, a story that nobody knew at the time and which we learned about later through the patient observations and skillful deductions of a geologist, Jehan Rondot. This story is worth being told."- Hubert Reeves