Geological and Biological Effects of Impact Events

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Ostracods Prove that the Frasnian/Famennian Boundary Mass Extinction was a Major and Abrupt Crisis

   • Jean-Georges Casier, Francis Lethiers

   Pages 1-10

3. Lateral Variations in End-Permian Organic Matter in Northern Italy

   • Mark A. Sephton, Ruben J. Veefkind, Cindy V. Looy, Henk Visscher, Henk Brinkhuis, J. W. de Leeuw

   Pages 11-24

4. Stable-Isotope and Trace Element Stratigraphy of the Jurassic/Cretaceous Boundary, Bosso River Gorge, Italy

   • Gerhard Kudielka, Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari, Jason Newton, Wolf Uwe Reimold

   Pages 25-68

5. Phytoplankton Blooms in the Jurassic- Cretaceous Boundary Beds of the Barents Sea Possibly Induced by the Mjølnir Impact

   • Morten Smelror, Henning Dypvik, Atle Mørk

   Pages 69-81

6. A Geographic Database Approach to the KT Boundary

   • Wolfgang Kiessling, Philippe Claeys

   Pages 83-140

7. Effects of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event on Bony Fishes

   • Lionel Cavin

   Pages 141-158

8. K/T Impact Remains in an Ammonite from the Uppermost Maastrichtian of Bidart Section (French Basque Country)

   • Robert Rocchia, Eric Robin, Jan Smit, Olivier Pierrard, Irène Lefevre

   Pages 159-166

9. Petrographic and Geochemical Studies in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, Pernambuco — Paraíba Basin, Brazil

   • Gilberto A. Albertão, Paulo P. Martins Jr.

   Pages 167-196

10. Effects of Bioturbation through the Late Eocene Impactoclastic Layer near Massignano, Italy

    • Heinz Huber, Christian Koeberl, David T. King Jr., Lucille W. Petruny, Alessandro Montanari

    Pages 197-216

11. The Ries and Steinheim Meteorite Impacts and their Effect on Environmental Conditions in Time and Space

    • Madelaine Böhme, Hans-Joachim Gregor, Kurt Heissig

    Pages 217-235

12. Radiation Effects of the Chicxulub Impact Event

    • Valery V. Shuvalov

    Pages 237-247

13. Extraterrestrial Material Deposition after Impacts into Continental and Oceanic Sites

    • Natalia N. Artemieva, Valery V. Shuvalov

    Pages 249-263

14. Petrophysics Hints at Unexplored Impact Physics

    • Vladimir V. Svetsov

    Pages 265-295

This book is the first volume of a new interdisciplinary series on "Impact Studies". The volumes of this series aim to include all aspects of research related to impact cratering - geology, geophysics, paleontology, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, planetolgy, etc. Future volumes will include monographs, field guides, conference proceedings, etc. All contributions in this book were peer-reviewed to ensure high scientific quality. The thirteen papers in the present volume result from a workshop of the European Science Foundation (ESF) IMPACT programme ("Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes"). This programme is an interdisciplinary effort aimed at understanding impact processes and their effects on the Earth System, including environmental, biological, and geological changes, and consequences for the biodiversity of ecosystems. The goals of the programme, and details about our activities, can be found on the web at . The IMPACT programme has currently 15 member nations from allover Europe. The activities of the programme range from workshops to specific topics regarding impact cratering, short courses on impact stratigraphy, shock metamorphism, etc. , mobility grants for students and young researchers, development of teaching aids, and publications. The third IMPACT workshop was held in Quillan, in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, in September 1999.

• Biodiversität
• Jura
• Massenauslöschung
• Meteoriteneinschläge
• Petrophysics
• biodiversity
• ecosystem
• evolution
• impacts
• mass eextinction
• meteorites

• CNRS, Paris, France

  Eric Buffetaut

• Institute of Geochemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Christian Koeberl

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