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- Summarizes the current knowledge on cratering and ejecta production during impact events taking place in the ocean or on ice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Impact Studies (IMPACTSTUD)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Impacts into Marine and Icy Environments — A Short Review
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Marine impacts and ejecta
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Icy impacts and icy impactors
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Methods
About this book
Despite their global importance, little is known about the few existing examples of impacts into marine environments and icy targets. They are among the least understood and studied parts of impact crater geology. The icy impacts are also of great importance in understanding the developments of the outer planets and their satellites such as Mars or Europa. Furthermore, the impact mechanisms, crater formation and collapse, melt production and the ejecta distribution are scarcely known for impact on targets other than the "classical" solid silicates of the continental crust. The reaction of water and ice to impacts clearly deserves a more thorough study. The understanding of impact effects and consequences in the case of aqueous hits, soft sediments and icy targets has not been thoroughly explored and comprises the main focus of this book.
A number of papers in the field of hypervelocity impacts on ice are included. These cover a review of available literature in the field of laboratory studies of such impacts, large impact structures on Titan, predicting impact cratering on a comet nucleus, and a novel report on the survival of bacteria fired at hypervelocity into icy surfaces. This latter paper is concerned with astrobiology and in particular Panspermia (natural migration of life through space).
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Henning Dypvik
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Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK
Mark J. Burchell
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Department of Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Philippe Claeys
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cratering in Marine Environments and on Ice
Editors: Henning Dypvik, Mark J. Burchell, Philippe Claeys
Series Title: Impact Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06423-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40668-6Published: 17 November 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07376-2Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-06423-8Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 1612-8338
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 340
Number of Illustrations: 133 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Atmospheric Sciences, Astrobiology