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Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

  • Presents in one volume a series of papers that cover the whole range of biological effects of impacts

Part of the book series: Impact Studies (IMPACTSTUD)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. The Potential for Survival of Organic Matter in Fluid Inclusions at Impact Sites

    • John Parnell, Martin Baron, Helen Wycherley
    Pages 1-20
  3. Geomicrobiology of Impact-Altered Rocks

    • Charles S. Cockell, David A. Fike, Gordon R. Osinski, Pascal Lee
    Pages 21-40
  4. Impact-Generated Hydrothermal System — Constraints from the Large Paleoproterozoic Sudbury Crater, Canada

    • Doreen E. Ames, Ian R. Jonasson, Harold L. Gibson, Kevin O. Pope
    Pages 55-100
  5. New Evidence for Impact from the Suvasvesi South Structure, Central East Finland

    • Fabio Donadini, Jüri Plado, Stephanie C. Werner, Johanna Salminen, Lauri J. Pesonen, Martti Lehtinen
    Pages 287-307
  6. Sediments and Impact Rocks Filling the Boltysh Impact Crater

    • Eugene P. Gurov, Simon P. Kelley, Christian Koeberl, Natalia I. Dykan
    Pages 335-358

About this book

The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor in the K/T boundary extinctions has had a particularly important influence on thinking concerning the role of impacts in ecological and biological changes. th During the 10 and final workshop of the ESF IMPACT program during March 2003, we sought to investigate the wider aspects of the involvement of impact events in biological processes, including the beneficial role of these events from the prebiotic through to the ecosystem level. The ESF IMPACT programme (1998-2003) was an interdisciplinary effort that is aimed at understanding impact processes and their effects on the Earth environment, including environmental, geological and biological changes. The IMPACT programme has 15 member states and the activities of the programme range from workshops to short courses on topics such as impact stratigraphy, shock metamorphism, etc. The program has also awarded mobility grants and been involved in the development of teaching aids and numerous publications, including this one.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Charles Cockell, Iain Gilmour

  • Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Koeberl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

  • Editors: Charles Cockell, Iain Gilmour, Christian Koeberl

  • Series Title: Impact Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b135965

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25735-6Published: 09 March 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06515-6Published: 12 February 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-25736-3Published: 18 May 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1612-8338

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 376

  • Topics: Geology, Biogeosciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Planetology

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