Impacts and the early earth
By: ESF IMPACT ; [edited by] Iain Gilmour, Christian Koeberl.
Contributors: Gilmour, Iain.; Koeberl, Christian, 1959-; ESF IMPACT.
Series: Lecture notes in earth sciences -- 91.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Catastrophes (Geology) -- Congresses.; Impact -- Congresses.; Life -- Origin -- Congresses.; Cryptoexplosion structures -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from a workshop held at Robinson College, Cambridge, England, Dec. 13-15, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Exobiology / M.J. Burchell ... [et al.]; title: Macromolecular organic materials in carbonaceous chondrites / Mark Sephton and Ian Gilmour; title: Effects of atmospheric heating on infallin meteorites and micrometeorites / I.P. Wright, P.D. Yates and C.T. Pillinger; title: Search for petrographic and geochemical evidence for the late heavy bombardment on Earth in early archean rocks from Isua, Greenland / Christian Koeberl ... [et al.]; title: The oldest impact deposits on Earth, first confirmation of an extraterrestrial component / Alexander Shukolyukov ... [et al.]; title: Early Archean spherule beds in the Barberton mountain land, South Africa / Wolf Uwe Reimold ... [et al.]; title: Particles in late Archean carawine dolomite (Western Australia) resemble Muong Nong-type Tektites / Bruce M. Simonson, Miriam Hornstein, Scott Hassler; title: Fossil micrometeorites from Finland, basic features, scientific potential and characteristics of the Mesoproterozoic host rocks / Dirk Kettrup ... [et al.]; title: Impact diamonds as indicators of shock metamorphism in strongly-reworked pre-Cambrian impactites / S. Vishnevsky and J. Raitala; title: Deeply exhumed impact structures / R.L Gibson and W.U. Reimold; title: Identification of ancient impact structures / T. Kenkmann, B.A. Ivanov and D. Stoffler; title: Basic remote sensing signatures of large, deeply eroded impact structures / Andreas Abels, Heiko Zumprekel and Lutz Bischoff; title: The terrestrial cratering rate over the last 125 million years / David W. Hughes; title: Impact melting of carbonates from the Chicxulub crater / A.P. Jones, P. Claeys and S. Heuschkel; title: The gallejaur structure, Northern Sweden / Robert Lilljquist; title: Neugrund structure, the newly discovered submarine early Cambrian impact crater / Kalle Suuroja and Sten Suuoja; title: Impact-induced replacement of plagioclase by k-feldspar in granitoids and amphibolites and the Kärdla crater, Estonia / V. Puura ... [et al.].