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Cratering in Marine Environments and on Ice

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Editors:
  1. Henning Dypvik

    1. Department of Geology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Mark J. Burchell

    1. Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

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  3. Philippe Claeys

    1. Department of Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Impacts into Marine and Icy Environments — A Short Review

    1. Impacts into Marine and Icy Environments — A Short Review

      • Henning Dypvik, Mark J. Burchell, Philippe Claeys
      Pages 1-20

  3. Marine impacts and ejecta

    1. Biotic Responses to the Mjølnir Meteorite Impact, Barents Sea: Evidence from a Core Drilled within the Crater

      • Gerd Merethe A. Bremer, Morten Smelror, Jenö Nagy, Jorunn O. Vigran
      Pages 21-38

    2. Near-field Erosional Features at the Mjølnir Impact Crater: the Role of Marine Sedimentary Target

      • Filippos Tsikalas, Jan Inge Faleide
      Pages 39-55

    3. Global Effects of the Chicxulub Impact on Terrestrial Vegetation — Review of the Palynological Record from New Zealand Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary

      • Vivi Vajda, J. Ian Raine, Christopher J. Hollis, C. Percy Strong
      Pages 57-74

    4. The Neugrund Marine Impact Structure (Gulf of Finland, Estonia)

      • Sten Suuroja, Kalle Suuroja
      Pages 75-95

    5. Structure-filling Sediments of the Wetumpka Marine-target Impact Structure (Alabama, USA)

      • David T. King Jr., Thornton L. Neathery, Lucille W. Petruny
      Pages 97-113

    6. Krk-breccia, Possible Impact-Crater Fill, Island of Krk in Eastern Adriatic Sea (Croatia)

      • Tihomir Marjanac, Ana Marija TomÅ¡a, Ljerka Marjanac
      Pages 115-134

    7. Did the Puchezh-Katunki Impact Trigger an Extinction?

      • József Pálfy
      Pages 135-148

    8. Geochemistry of a Langhian Pelagic Marly Limestone Sequence of the Cònero Riviera, Ancona (Italy) and the Search for a Ries Impact Signature: A Progress Report

      • Dieter Mader, Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari
      Pages 149-184

  4. Icy impacts and icy impactors

    1. Titan: A New World Covered in Submarine Craters?

      • Ralph D. Lorenz
      Pages 185-195

    2. Estimating Crater Size for Hypervelocity Impacts on Small Icy Bodies (e.g. Comet Nucleus)

      • Mark Burchell, Ellen Johnson, Ivan Grey
      Pages 197-210

    3. Survivability of Bacteria in Hypervelocity Impacts on Ice

      • J. R. Mann, M. J. Burchell, P. Brandão, A. W. Bunch, I. D. S. Grey
      Pages 211-221

    4. Impact Cratering of Icy and Rocky Targets in Planetary Sciences and in the Laboratory

      • Jacek Leliwa-Kopystynski, Mark J. Burchell
      Pages 223-249

  5. Methods

    1. Paleomagnetism and 40Ar/39Ar Age Determinations of Impactites from the Ilyinets Structure, Ukraine

      • Lauri J. Pesonen, Dieter Mader, Eugene P. Gurov, Christian Koeberl, Kari A. Kinnunen, Fabio Donadini et al.
      Pages 251-280

    2. Cathodoluminescence, Electron Microscopy, and Raman Spectroscopy of Experimentally Shock Metamorphosed Zircon Crystals and Naturally Shocked Zircon from the Ries Impact Crater

      • Arnold Gucsik, Christian Koeberl, Franz Brandstätter, Eugen Libowitzky, Wolf Uwe Reimold
      Pages 281-322

    3. A Brief Introduction to Hydrocode Modeling of Impact Cratering

      • Elisabetta Pierazzo, Gareth Collins
      Pages 323-340
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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

  • Department of Geology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Henning Dypvik

  • Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

    Mark J. Burchell

  • 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

  • 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

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