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Impacts and the Early Earth

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Editors:
  1. Iain Gilmour
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  2. Christian Koeberl
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 91)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Exobiology: Laboratory tests of the impact related aspects of Panspermia

    • M. J. Burchell, N. R. G. Shrine, A. Bunch, J. C. Zarnecki
    Pages 1-26

  3. Macromolecular organic materials in carbonaceous chondrites: A review of their sources and their role in the origin of life on the early earth

    • Mark Sephton, Iain Gilmour
    Pages 27-49

  4. Effects of atmospheric heating on infalling meteorites and micrometeorites: Relevance to conditions on the early earth

    • I. P. Wright, P. D. Yates, C. T. Pillinger
    Pages 51-72

  5. Search for petrographic and geochemical evidence for the late heavy bombardment on earth in early archean rocks from Isua, Greenland

    • Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Iain McDonald, Minik Rosing
    Pages 73-97

  6. The oldest impact deposits on earth — First confirmation of an extraterrestrial component

    • Alexander Shukolyukov, Frank T. Kyte, Günter W. Lugmair, Donald R. Lowe, Gary R. Byerly
    Pages 99-115

  7. Early archean spherule beds in the Barberton mountain land, South Africa: Impact or terrestrial origin?

    • Wolf Uwe Reimold, Christian Koeberl, Steven Johnson, Iain McDonald
    Pages 117-180

  8. Particles in late archean carawine dolomite (Western Australia) resemble muong nong-type tektites

    • Bruce M. Simonson, Miriam Hornstein, Scott Hassler
    Pages 181-213

  9. Fossil micrometeorites from Finland — Basic features, scientific potential, and characteristics of the mesoproterozoic host rocks

    • Dirk Kettrup, Alexander Deutsch, Pekka Pihlaja, Lauri J. Pesonen
    Pages 215-227

  10. Impact diamonds as indicators of shock metamorphism in strongly-reworked Pre-Cambrian impactites

    • S. Vishnevsky, J. Raitala
    Pages 229-247

  11. Deeply exhumed impact structures: A case study of the Vredefort structure, South Africa

    • R. L. Gibson, W. U. Reimold
    Pages 249-277

  12. Identification of ancient impact structures: Low-angle faults and related geological features of crater basements

    • T. Kenkmann, B. A. Ivanov, D. Stöffler
    Pages 279-307

  13. Basic remote sensing signatures of large, deeply eroded impact structures

    • Andreas Abels, Heiko Zumsprekel, Lutz Bischoff
    Pages 309-326

  14. The terrestrial cratering rate over the last 125 million years

    • David W. Hughes
    Pages 327-341

  15. Impact melting of carbonates from the Chicxulub crater

    • A. P. Jones, P. Claeys, S. Heuschkel
    Pages 343-361

  16. The Gallejaur structure, Northern Sweden

    • Robert Lilljequist
    Pages 363-387

  17. Neugrund structure — the newly discovered submarine early Cambrian impact crater

    • Kalle Suuroja, Sten Suuroja
    Pages 389-416

  18. Impact-induced replacement of plagioclase by K-feldspar in granitoids and amphibolites at the Kärdla Crater, Estonia

    • V. Puura, A. Kärki, J. Kirs, K. Kirsimäe, A. Kleesment, M. Konsa et al.
    Pages 417-445
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About this book

Only 10% of the 150 or so known impact craters on Earth date from the early Precambrian Era, a time period covering some 88% of the Earth's history. Yet this Era encompasses fundamental events in the origin and evolution of our planet from the origin of life itself to the development of continents. The papers in this volume were presented at a workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation Scientific Network on Impact cratering held in Cambridge, UK, in December 1998. The papers outline the present state of scientific understanding of the role impacts may have played in the biological and geological evolution of the Early Earth.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Impacts and the Early Earth

  • Editors: Iain Gilmour, Christian Koeberl

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027753

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-67092-6Published: 26 May 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46578-2Published: 07 December 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 448

  • Number of Illustrations: 181 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Geology, Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography

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