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Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

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Editors:
  1. Charles Cockell

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

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  2. Iain Gilmour

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

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  3. Christian Koeberl

    1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  • 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
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  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. Bacterial Spores Survive Simulated Meteorite Impact

    • Gerda Horneck
    Pages 41-53

  5. 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

  6. Comparison of Bosumtwi Impact Crater (Ghana) and Crater Lake Volcanic Caldera (Oregon, USA): Implications for Biotic Recovery after Catastrophic Events

    • Michael R. Rampino, Christian Koeberl
    Pages 101-120

  7. Paleobiologic Effects of the Late Cretaceous Wetumpka Marine Impact, a 7.6-km-Diameter Impact Structure, Gulf Coastal Plain, USA

    • David T. King Jr., Lucille W. Petruny, Thornton L. Neathery
    Pages 121-142

  8. The Sweet Aftermath: Environmental Changes and Biotic Restoration Following the Marine Mjølnir Impact (Volgian-Ryazanian Boundary, Barents Shelf)

    • Morten Smelror, Henning Dypvik
    Pages 143-178

  9. Guembelitria irregularis Bloom at the K-T Boundary: Morphological Abnormalities Induced by Impact-related Extreme Environmental Stress?

    • Rodolfo Coccioni, Valeria Luciani
    Pages 179-196

  10. Unravelling the Cretaceous-Paleogene (KT) Turnover, Evidence from Flora, Fauna and Geology

    • Adriana Ocampo, Vivi Vajda, Eric Buffetaut
    Pages 197-219

  11. Impacts and Wildfires - An Analysis of the K-T Event

    • C. M. Belcher
    Pages 221-243

  12. Continental Vertebrate Extinctions at the Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundaries: a Comparison

    • Eric Buffetaut
    Pages 245-256

  13. Geochemical Search for Impact Signatures in Possible Impact-generated Units Associated with the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary in southern England and northern France

    • Iain McDonald, Gordon J. Irvine, Eveline de Vos, Andrew S. Gale, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 257-286

  14. 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

  15. Kärdla Impact (Hiiumaa Island, Estonia) — Ejecta Blanket and Environmental Disturbances

    • Sten Suuroja, Kalle Suuroja
    Pages 309-333

  16. Sediments and Impact Rocks Filling the Boltysh Impact Crater

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

  17. Stones in the Sky: From the Main Belt to Earth-Crossing Orbits

    • Daniel Benest
    Pages 359-376
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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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