The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution: With Special Reference to Large Precambrian and Australian Impacts

by Andrew Y. Glikson

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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 and study of asteroid impact ejecta in the oldest well-preserved terrains of Western Australia and South Africa, by Don Lowe, Gary Byerly, Bruce Simonson,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:9400763271

ISBN13:9789400763272

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Springer

Length:149 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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