Large meteorite impacts and planetary evolution V /
"Impact cratering is one of the most fundamental geological processes. On many planets, impact craters are the dominant geological landform. On Earth, erosion, plate tectonics, and volcanic resurfacing continually destroy the impact cratering record, but even here, the geological, biological, a...
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Boulder, Colorado :
The Geological Society of America,
2015.
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| Series: | Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
518. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Gordon R. Osinski and David A. Kring
- The role of meteorite impacts in the origin of life: Potential catalytic role of phyllosilicates in pre-biotic organic synthesis / H.H. Schmitt
- Making craters : from the small to the big: Scaling impact crater dimensions in cohesive rock by numerical modeling and laboratory experiments / N. Güldemeister, K. Wünnemann, and M.H. Poelchau. Characteristics of impact craters in the northern hemisphere of Mars / Nadine G. Barlow. Morphologic and structural mapping of the central uplift of Betio crater, Thaumasia Planum, Mars / A.M. Nuhn, L.L. Tornabene, G.R. Osinski, and A.S. McEwen. Kinematics of large terrestrial impact crater formation inferred from structural analysis and three-dimensional block modeling of the Vredefort Dome, South Africa / Andreas Jahn and Ulrich Riller. Scaling of basin-sized impacts and the influence of target temperature / Ross W.K. Potter, David A. Kring, and Gareth S. Collins
- Products of planetary impacts: Petrologic and impact size controls on Precambrian spherule diameters / Alexandra Krull Davatzes, Nicholas Swartz, and Matthew Enos. Zircon formation in impact melts : complications for deciphering planetary impact histories / Matthew M. Wielicki and T. Mark Harrison. Microscopic effects of shock metamorphism in zircons from the Haughton impact structure, Canada / A.C. Singleton, G.R. Osinski, and S.R. Shieh. Surficial polymict impact breccia unit, Wetumpka impact structure, Alabama : shock levels and emplacement mechanism / David T. King Jr., Jared R. Morrow, Lucille W. Petruny, and Jens Ormö. Nature and origin of the Garson Member of the Onaping Formation, Sudbury impact structure, Canada / A.B. Coulter and G.R. Osinski
- Remote sensing methods to study impact craters: Mapping terrestrial impact craters with the TanDEM-X digital elevation model / Manfred Gottwald, Thomas Fritz, Helko Breit, Birgit Schättler, and Alan Harris. Real-time crater profile analysis : visualizing high-resolution laster altimetry data sets on the GPU / J. McDonald and J. Montgomery.