Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events
Editors: Cockell, Charles, Koeberl, Christian, Gilmour, Iain (Eds.)
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The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor in the K/T boundary extinctions has had a particularly important influence on thinking concerning the role of impacts in ecological and biological changes. th During the 10 and final workshop of the ESF IMPACT program during March 2003, we sought to investigate the wider aspects of the involvement of impact events in biological processes, including the beneficial role of these events from the prebiotic through to the ecosystem level. The ESF IMPACT programme (1998-2003) was an interdisciplinary effort that is aimed at understanding impact processes and their effects on the Earth environment, including environmental, geological and biological changes. The IMPACT programme has 15 member states and the activities of the programme range from workshops to short courses on topics such as impact stratigraphy, shock metamorphism, etc. The program has also awarded mobility grants and been involved in the development of teaching aids and numerous publications, including this one.
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The Potential for Survival of Organic Matter in Fluid Inclusions at Impact Sites
Pages 1-20
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Geomicrobiology of Impact-Altered Rocks
Pages 21-40
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Bacterial Spores Survive Simulated Meteorite Impact
Pages 41-53
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Impact-Generated Hydrothermal System — Constraints from the Large Paleoproterozoic Sudbury Crater, Canada
Pages 55-100
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Comparison of Bosumtwi Impact Crater (Ghana) and Crater Lake Volcanic Caldera (Oregon, USA): Implications for Biotic Recovery after Catastrophic Events
Pages 101-120
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events
- Editors
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- Charles Cockell
- Christian Koeberl
- Iain Gilmour
- Series Title
- Impact Studies
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-25736-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/b135965
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-25735-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-06515-6
- Series ISSN
- 1612-8338
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 376
- Topics
