Southbound pocket guide to the Vredefort Dome (Paperback)

Let Southbound take you to the Vredefort Dome and back in time towhere it all started-The Big Bang! To how our world began, andthen, when it was all perfectly formed around two billion yearsago- Wham! Another big bang-this time an uninvited intruder fromouter space in the form of a whopping 190-kilometre-diametermeteorite that smashed into Earth near today's little town ofVredefort in central South Africa. * The Vredefort Dome, SouthAfrica's seventh and least-known World Heritage Site, is the siteof the largest and oldest meteorite impact structure on Earth ?Deep Impact: the formation of the dome and how the ground wasturned literally inside out in a matter of minutes ? Described byUNESCO as "the world's greatest known single energy release event"*With consequences of global destruction, burying of theWitwatersrand goldfields and, perhaps, evolutionary change*Accommodation and activities: comprehensive listings of touristfacilities and routes in and around the picturesque town of Parysat the centre of the Dome region.