The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution With Special Reference to Large Precambrian and Australian impacts /

• Main Author: Glikson, Andrew Y. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
• Subjects: Geography.; Planetology.; Astrophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6328-9

When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution.� Since the 1980s the discovery...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A paradigm shift in Earth science
• 2. Encounters in space
• �3. Lunar impacts and the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) in the Earth-Moon system
• 4. Impact cratering and ejecta dynamics
• 5. Identification of impact structures
• �6. Impact ejecta and fallout units
• ��7. Extraterrestrial geochemical, isotopic and mineralogical signatures
• �8. Precambrian asteroid impacts
• 9. Very large impact structures
• 10. Asteroid impact clusters and isotopic age peaks
• 11. Australian large asteroid impact and possible impact structures
• 12. Impacts and mass extinctions
• 13. Uniformitarian models and the role of asteroid impacts in Earth evolution
• 14. The current danger
• Index.