The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts
The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts

Author: Kevin R. Evans

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0813724376

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Although about 70 percent of known terrestrial meteorite impacts involve sedimentary rocks, the response of such rock to hyper- velocity impact is not well understand. Evans (Missouri State U., Springfield) introduces a dozen papers from a session on impact geology at the 2004 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Arranged by rocks' stratigraphic order (oldest to youngest) in proximal and distal settings, papers study topics including: characterization of impact sediments; a model for impact cratering processes; development of breccias (rock composed of sharp fragments embedded in a fine- grained matrix) in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure; and the method of impact stratigraphy applied to aging of the K-T boundary associated with mass extinction. The well-illustrated volume is not indexed.

Distal Impact Ejecta Layers
Distal Impact Ejecta Layers

Author: Billy P. Glass

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-14

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 3540882626

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Impact cratering is an important geological process on all solid planetary bodies, and, in the case of Earth, may have had major climatic and biological effects. Most terrestrial impact craters have been erased or modified beyond recognition. However, major impacts throw ejecta over large areas of the Earth's surface. Recognition of these impact ejecta layers can help fill in the gaps in the terrestrial cratering record and at the same time provide direct correlation between major impacts and other geological events, such as climatic changes and mass extinctions. This book provides the first summary of known distal impact ejecta layers

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI

Author: Wolf Uwe Reimold

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 081372550X

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"This volume contains a sizable suite of contributions dealing with regional impact records (Australia, Sweden), impact craters and impactites, early Archean impacts and geophysical characteristics of impact structures, shock metamorphic investigations, post-impact hydrothermalism, and structural geology and morphometry of impact structures - on Earth and Mars"--

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V

Author: Gordon R. Osinski

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780813725185

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In this volume, the geologic and planetary science communities explore impact events and how they affected the evolution of Earth and other planetary bodies. these papers are the outcome of a conference held every five years.

Large Meteorite Impacts III
Large Meteorite Impacts III

Author: Thomas Kenkmann

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 0813723841

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"The third volume of the series “Large Meteorite Impacts” provides an updated and comprehensive overview of modern impact crater research. In 26 chapters, more than 90 authors from Europe, the United States, Russia, Canada, and South Africa give a balanced, firsthand account of the multidisciplinary field of cratering science, with reports on field studies, geophysical analyses, and experimental and numerical simulations. Nine chapters focus on structure, geophysics, and cratering motions of terrestrial craters. Recent advances in impact ejecta studies and shock metamorphism are assembled, each with seven chapters, and three chapters extend the scope from a terrestrial to a planetary perspective."--pub. desc.

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV

Author: W. U. Reimold

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 0813724651

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution held at the Vredefort Dome, South Africa, in Aug. 2008.

The Sedimentary Record of Sea-Level Change
The Sedimentary Record of Sea-Level Change

Author: Angela L. Coe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-05-22

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521538428

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A lavishly illustrated textbook on sequence stratigraphy, supported by numerous learning features and supplementary website.

The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure
The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure

Author: Gregory S. Gohn

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 988

ISBN-13: 0813724589

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"In 2005 and 2006, an international deep drilling project, conceived and organized under the auspices of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program and the U.S. Geological Survey, continuously cored three boreholes to a total depth of 1.766 km near the center of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure in Northampton County, Virginia. This volume presents the initial results of geologic, petrographic, geochemical, paleontologic, geophysical, hydrologic, and microbiologic analyses of the Eyreville cores, which constitute a step forward in our understanding of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure and marine impact structures in general. The editors have organized this extensive volume into the following sections: geologic columns; borehole geophysical studies; regional geophysical studies; crystalline rocks, impactites, and impact models; sedimentary breccias; post-impact sediments; hydrologic and geothermal studies; and microbiologic studies. The multidisciplinary approach to the study of this impact structure should provide a valuable example for future scientific drilling investigations."--Publisher's description.