Impacts and the early earth /
Only 10% of the 150 or so known impact craters on Earth date from the early Precambrian Era, a time period covering 88% of the Earths history. Yet this Era encompasses events in the origin and evolution of our planet from the origin of life itself to the developments of the continents. The papers in...
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2000]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in earth sciences ;
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Table of Contents:
- Exobiology / M.J. Burchell [and others]
- Macromolecular organic materials in carbonaceous chondrites / Mark Sephton and Ian Gilmour
- Effects of atmospheric heating on infalling meteorites and micrometeorites / I.P. Wright, P.D. Yates and C.T. Pillinger
- Search for petrographic and geochemical evidence for the late heavy bombardment on Earth in early archean rocks from Isua, Greenland / Christian Koeberl [and others]
- The oldest impact deposits on Earth, first confirmation of an extraterrestrial component / Alexander Shukolyukov [and others]
- Early Archean spherule beds in the Barberton mountain land, South Africa / Wolf Uwe Reimold [and others]
- Particles in late Archean carawine dolomite (Western Australia) resemble Muong Nong-type Tektites / Bruce M. Simonson, Miriam Hornstein, Scott Hassler
- Fossil micrometeorites from Finland, basic features, scientific potential and characteristics of the Mesoproterozoic host rocks / Dirk Kettrup [and others]
- Impact diamonds as indicators of shock metamorphism in strongly-reworked pre-Cambrian impactites / S. Vishnevsky and J. Raitala
- Deeply exhumed impact structures / R.L Gibson and W.U. Reimold
- Identification of ancient impact structures / T. Kenkmann, B.A. Ivanov and D. Stoffler
- Basic remote sensing signatures of large, deeply eroded impact structures / Andreas Abels, Heiko Zumprekel and Lutz Bischoff
- The terrestrial cratering rate over the last 125 million years / David W. Hughes
- Impact melting of carbonates from the Chicxulub crater / A.P. Jones, P. Claeys and S. Heuschkel
- The gallejaur structure, Northern Sweden / Robert Lilljquist
- Neugrund structure, the newly discovered submarine early Cambrian impact crater / Kalle Suuroja and Sten Suuoja
- Impact-induced replacement of plagioclase by k-feldspar in granitoids and amphibolites and the Kärdla crater, Estonia / V. Puura [and others].