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This book summarizes our current knowledge of the properties, origin, orbital evolution and accretion mechanism of extraterrestrial matter accreted on Earth and sheds light on accretion processes and fluxes in the geologic past. The chapters in the first part of the book are arranged in order to follow extraterrestrial matter from its origin in space, its orbital evolution on its way to Earth, its interaction with the Earth magnetosphere and atmosphere to its more or less violent collision with the Earth's surface. In the second part of the book several chapters deal with the present?day flux of cosmic dust and meteorites to Earth. Finally, several chapters deal with the reconstruction of the accretion history of extraterrestrial matter on Earth, starting with the most recent geologic past and ending with the very early, violent accretion period shortly after the formation of Earth, Moon and other solid planets in our solar system.
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Book Title: Accretion of Extraterrestrial Matter Throughout Earth’s History
Editors: Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Birger Schmitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8694-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46689-2Published: 31 October 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4668-5Published: 07 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8694-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 466
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Earth Sciences, general, Planetology, Geochemistry, Sedimentology