Impact Markers in the Stratigraphic Record

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. The Stratigraphic Record of Impact Events: A Short Overview

   • Christian Koeberl, Francisca Martinez-Ruiz

   Pages 1-40

3. Application of stratigraphic nomenclature to terrestrial impact-derived and impact-related materials

   • David T. King Jr, Lucille W. Petruny

   Pages 41-64

4. Main Geochemical Signatures Related to Meteoritic Impacts in Terrestrial Rocks: A Review

   • María-Jesús Muñoz-Espadas, Jesús Martínez-Frías, Rosario Lunar

   Pages 65-90

5. Impact Decompression Melting: A Possible Trigger for Impact Induced Volcanism and Mantle Hotspots ?

   • Adrian P. Jones, David G. Price, Paul S. DeCarli, Neville Price, Richard Clegg

   Pages 91-119

6. Displacement of Target Material During Impact Cratering

   • Valery Shuvalov

   Pages 121-135

7. Obscure-bedded Ejecta Facies from the Popigai Impact Structure, Siberia: Lithological Features and Mode of Origin

   • Victor L. Masaitis

   Pages 137-162

8. Biostratigraphic Indications of the Age of the Boltysh Impact Crater, Ukraine

   • Anton Valter, Ludmila Plotnikova

   Pages 163-178

9. Ejecta of the Boltysh Impact Crater in the Ukrainian Shield

   • Eugene P. Gurov, Simon P. Kelley, Christian Koeberl

   Pages 179-202

10. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Coarse Impactoclastic Breccia Units within the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Section, Albion Island, Belize

    • David T. King Jr, Lucille W. Petruny

    Pages 203-227

11. New Geochemical Insights from Electron-Spin- Resonance Studies of Mn2+ and SO3- in Calcites: Quantitative Analyses of Chicxulub Crater Ejecta from Belize and Southern México with Comparison to Limestones from Distal Cretaceous-Tertiary-Boundary Sites

    • David L. Griscom, Virgilio Beltrán-López, Kevin O. Pope, Adriana C. Ocampo

    Pages 229-270

12. Petrography and Geochemistry of a Deep Drill Core from the Edge of the Morokweng Impact Structure, South Africa

    • Wolf Uwe Reimold, Christian Koeberl

    Pages 271-292

13. Stratigraphy, Paleomagnetic Results, and Preliminary Palynology across the Permian-Triassic (P-Tr) Boundary at Carlton Heights, Southern Karoo Basin (South Africa)

    • Dylan M. Schwindt, Michael R. Rampino, Maureen B. Steiner, Yoram Eshet

    Pages 293-314

14. Search for an Extraterrestrial Component in the Late Devonian Alamo Impact Breccia (Nevada): Results of Iridium Measurements

    • Christian Koeberl, Heinz Huber, Matthew Morgan, John E. Warme

    Pages 315-332

15. The Osmussaar Breccia in Northwestern Estonia — Evidence of a ~475 Ma Earthquake or an Impact?

    • Kalle Suuroja, Kalle Kirsimäe, Leho Ainsaar, Marko Kohv, William C. Mahaney, Sten Suuroja

    Pages 333-347

16. Back Matter

    Pages 349-349

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The present volume is an outcome of the scientific programme “Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes” (IMPACT) by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The ESF is an association of 67 national member organizations devoted to scientific research in 24 European countries. The IMPACT programme is aimed at understanding meteorite impact processes and their effects on the Earth System. Launched in 1998 for duration of 5 years, 15 ESF member organizations now participate in this programme, which will officially end in late 2003, although the momentum gained for European (and worldwide) impact research will be carried on in other programs and organizations. The programme deals with all aspects of meteorite impact research and operates through workshops, exchange programs, publications, and short courses. This particular book is the third in an informal series on “Impact Studies”, which is published by Springer and intended to go beyond the ESF IMPACT programme by providing a venue for high quality (and peer-reviewed) monographs and conference and workshop proceedings on general topics connected to impact cratering and related research. th The 6 ESF-Impact workshop “Impact makers in the stratigraphic record” was held in Granada (Spain) on May 2001, with about sixty scientists from Europe, Taiwan, and North America attending the workshop. During the workshop 30 oral, 32 poster, and 3 keynote contributions were presented.

• Cretaceous
• Devonian
• Europe
• Ordovician
• Trias
• Triassic
• craters
• geochemistry
• impact markers
• impacts
• limestone
• mass extinctions
• stratigraphic record

• Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Christian Koeberl

• Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Granada, Spain

  Francisca C. Martínez-Ruiz

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