LEADER 03981nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910437947003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-007-6328-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-6328-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000105361 035 $a(EBL)1206421 035 $a(OCoLC)837169122 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000878489 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11548279 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878489 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10814459 035 $a(PQKB)10475487 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-6328-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1206421 035 $a(PPN)169142493 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000105361 100 $a20130409d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe asteroid impact connection of planetary evolution $ewith special reference to large Precambrian and Australian impacts /$fAndrew Y. Glikson 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aDordrecht ;$aNew York $cSpringer$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (149 p.) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in earth sciences,$x2191-5369 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-007-6327-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aWhen in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution.  Since the 1980s the discovery and study of asteroid impact ejecta in the oldest well-preserved terrains of Western Australia and South Africa, by Don Lowe, Gary Byerly, Bruce Simonson, the author and others, and the documentation of new exposed and buried impact structures in several continents, led to a resurgence of the idea of the catastrophism theory of Cuvier, earlier largely supplanted by the uniformitarian theory of Hutton and Lyell. Several mass extinction of species events are known to have occurred in temporal proximity to large asteroid impacts, global volcanic eruptions and continental splitting. Likely links are observed between asteroid clusters and at 580 Ma, end-Devonian, end-Triassic and end-Jurassic extinctions. New discoveries of ~3.5 Ga-old impact fallout units in South Africa have led Lowe and Byerly to propose a protracted continuation of the Late Heavy Bombardment (~3.95-3.85 Ga) in the Earth-Moon system. Given the difficulty in identifying asteroid impact ejecta units and buried impact structures, it is likely new discoveries of impact signatures are in store, which would further profoundly alter models of terrestrial evolution. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in earth sciences. 606 $aAsteroids$xCollisions with Earth 606 $aImpact craters 607 $aEarth (Planet)$xSurface 615 0$aAsteroids$xCollisions with Earth. 615 0$aImpact craters. 676 $a523.44 700 $aGlikson$b A. Y$01219978 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910437947003321 996 $aThe asteroid impact connection of planetary evolution$94203543 997 $aUNINA