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Impacts and the Early Earth

By M. J. Burchell , N. R. G. Shrine , A. Bunch , J. C. Zarnecki (auth.) , Dr. Iain Gilmour , Dr. Christian Koeberl (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2000
ISBN
3540670920, 9783540670926
DOI
10.1007/BFb0027753
ISSN
0930-0317
Open Library ID
OL18729274M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
44 MB (45724354 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 91
Edition
1
Pages
448\465
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Geophysics/Geodesy; Geology; Meteorology/Climatolo

Description

Only 10% of the 150 or so known impact craters on Earth date from the early Precambrian Era, a time period covering 88% of the Earths history. Yet this Era encompasses events in the origin and evolution of our planet from the origin of life itself to the developments of the continents. The papers in this volume were presented at a workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation Scientific Network on Impact cratering held in Cambridge, UK, in December 1998. The papers outline the present state of scientific understanding of the role impacts may have played in the biological and geological evolution of the Early Earth.

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