Catastrophic events and mass extinctions : impacts and beyond / edited by Christian Koeberl and Kenneth G. MacLeod.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koeberl, Christian, 1959-

MacLeod, Kenneth G., 1964-

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 356.

Special paper ; 356

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catastrophes (Geology)--Congresses.

Catastrophes (Geology).

Extinction (Biology)--Congresses.

Extinction (Biology).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 746 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2002.

Contents:

1. Meteors and comets in ancient Mexico / Ulrich Kohler 1

2. Impact lethality and risks in today's world: Lessons for interpreting Earth history / Clark R. Chapman 7

3. Tracers of the extraterrestrial component in sediments and inferences for Earth's accretion history / Frank T. Kyte 21

Chicxulub and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Deposits

4. Geophysical constraints on the size and structure of the Chicxulub impact crater / Joanna Morgan, Mike Warner, Richard Grieve 39

5. Micro-Raman and optical identification of coesite in suevite from Chicxulub / Elena Lounejeva, Mikjail Ostroumov, Gerardo Sanchez-Rubio 47

6. Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary / Philippe Claeys, Wolfgang Kiessling, Walter Alvarez 55

7. Generation and propagation of a tsunami from the Cretaceous-Tertiary impact event / T. Matsui, F. Imamura, E. Tajika, Y. Nakano, Y. Fujisawa 69

8. Mass wasting of Atlantic continental margins following the Chicxulub impact event / R.D. Norris, J.V. Firth 79

9. Sequence stratigraphy and sea-level change across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary on the New Jersey passive margin / Richard K. Olsson, Kenneth G. Miller, James V. Browning, James D. Wright, Benjamin S. Cramer 97

10. Complex tsunami waves suggested by the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary deposit at the Moncada section, western Cuba / R. Tada, Y. Nakano, M.A. Iturralde-Vinent, S. Yamamoto, T. Kamata, E. Tajika, K. Toyoda, S. Kiyokawa, D. Garcia Delgado, T. Oji, K. Goto, H. Takayama, R. Rojas-Consuegra, T. Matsui 109

11. Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sequence in the Cacarajicara Formation, western Cuba: An impact-related, high-energy, gravity-flow deposit / Shoichi Kiyokawa, Ryuji Tada, Manuel Iturralde-Vinent, Eiichi Tajika, Shinji Yamamoto, Tetsuo Oji, Youichiro Nakano, Kazuhisa Goto, Hideo Takayama, Dora Garcia Delgado, Consuelo Diaz Otero, Reinaldo Rojas-Consuegra, Takafumi Matsui 125

12. Multiple spherule layers in the late Maastrichtian of northeastern Mexico / Gerta Keller, Thierry Adatte, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Mark Affolter, Lionel Schilli, Jose Guadalupe Lopez-Oliva 145

13. Two anomalies of platinum group elements above the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Beloc, Haiti: Geochemical context and consequences for the impact scenario / Doris Stuben, Utz Kramar, Zsolt Berner, Jorg-Detlef Eckhardt, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Gerta Keller, Thierry Adatte, Klaus Heide 163

14. Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Blake Nose (Ocean drilling Program Leg 171B): A record of the Chicxulub impact ejecta / Francisca Martinez-Ruiz, Miguel Ortega-Huertas, Inmaculada Palomo, Jan Smit 189

15. Global occurrence of magnetic and superparamagnetic iron phases in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary clays / N. Bhandari, H.C. Verma, C. Upadhyay, Amita Tripathi, R.P. Tripathi 201

16. Cretaceous-Tertiary profile, rhythmic deposition, and geomagnetic polarity reversals of marine sediments near Bjala, Bulgaria / Anton Preisinger, Selma Aslanian, Franz Brandstatter, Friedrich Grass, Herbert Stradner, Herbert Summesberger 213

17. Paleoenvironment across the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in eastern Bulgaria / Thierry Adatte, Gerta Keller, S. Burns, K.H. Stoykova, M.I. Ivanov, D. Vangelov, Utz Kramar, Doris Stuben 231

Biological and Chemical Changes Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary

18. Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary planktic foraminiferal mass extinction and biochronology at La Ceiba and Bochil, Mexico, and El Kef, Tunisia / Ignacio Arenillas, Laia Alegret, Jose A. Arz, Carlos Liesa, Alfonso Melendez, Eustoquio Molina, Ana R. Soria, Esteban Cedillo-Pardo, Jose M. Grajales-Nishimura, Carmen Rosales-Dominguez

19. Distribution pattern of calcareous dinoflagellate cysts across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (Fish Clay, Stevns Klint, Denmark): Implications for our understanding of species-selective extinction / Jens Wendler, Helmut Willems 265

20. Abrupt extinction and subsequent reworking of Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Evidence from the subtropical North Atlantic / Brian T. Huber, Kenneth G. MacLeod, Richard D. Norris 277

21. Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: Restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event / William B. Gallagher 291

22. Giant ground birds at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Extinction or survival? / Eric Buffetaut 303

23. Dinosaurs that did not die: Evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico / James E. Fassett, Robert A. Zielinski, James R. Budahn 307

24. Sulfur isotopic compositions across terrestrial Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary successions / Teruyuki Maruoka, Christian Koeberl, Jason Newton, Iain Gilmour, Bruce F. Bohor 337

25. Natural fullerenes from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary layer at Anjar, Kutch, India / G. Parthasarathy, N. Bhandari, M. Vairamani, A.C. Kunwar, B. Narasaiah 345

26. Organic geochemical investigation of terrestrial Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary successions from Brownie Butte, Montana, and the Raton Basin, New Mexico / A.F. Gardner, I. Gilmour 351

Permian-Triassic Boundary

27. End-Permian mass extinctions: A review / Douglas H. Erwin, Samuel A. Bowring, Jin Yugan 363

28. Permian-Triassic boundary in the southwestern United States: Hiatus or continuity? / Walter Alvarez, Diane O'Connor 385

29. Extent, duration, and nature of the Permian-Triassic superanoxic event / Paul B. Wignall, Richard J. Twitchett 395

30. Abruptness of the end-Permian mass extinction as determined from biostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic analyses of European western Tethyan sections / Michael R. Rampino, Andreas Prokoph, Andre C. Adler, Dylan M. Schwindt 415

31. Permian-Triassic boundary in the northwest Karoo Basin: Current stratigraphic placement, implications for basin development models, and the search for evidence of impact / P. John Hancox, D. Brandt, W.U. Reimold, C. Koeberl, J. Neveling 429

32. Chemical signatures of the Permian-Triassic transitional environment in Spiti Valley, India / A.D. Shukla, N. Bhandari, P.N. Shukla 445

33. Synchronous record of [delta superscript 13]C shifts in the oceans and atmosphere at the end of the Permian / Mark A. Sephton, Cindy V. Looy, Ruben J. Veefkind, Henk Brinkhius, Jan W. De Leeuw, Henk Visscher 455

Other Extinctions and Boundaries

34. Late Ordovician extinction: A Laurentian view / William B.N. Berry, Robert L. Ripperdan, Stanley C. Finney 463

35. Late Devonian sea-level changes, catastrophic events, and mass extinctions / Charles A. Sandberg, Jared R. Morrow, Willi Ziegler 473

36. Impact-generated carbonate accretionary lapilli in the Late Devonian Alamo Breccia / John E. Warme, Matthew Morgan, Hans-Christian Kuehner 489

37. Continental Triassic-Jurassic boundary in central Pangea: Recent progress and discussion of an Ir anomaly / Paul E. Olsen, Christian Koeberl, Heinz Huber, Alessandro Montanari, Sarah J. Fowell, Mohammed Et-Touhami, Dennis V. Kent 505

38. Dating the end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinctions, correlative large igneous provinces, and isotopic events / Jozsef Palfy, Paul L. Smith, James K. Mortensen 523

39. Sea-level changes and black shales associated with the late Paleocene thermal maximum: Organic-geochemical and micropaleontologic evidence from the southern Tethyan margin (Egypt-Israel) / Robert P. Speijer, Thomas Wagner 533

40. Sedimentary record of impact events in Spain / Enrique Diaz-Martinez, Enrique Sanz-Rubio, Jesus Martinez-Frias 551

41. Postglacial impact events in Estonia and their influence on people and the environment / Anto Raukas 563

Experiments, Methods, and Model Calculations

42. Mineralogical investigations of experimentally shocked dolomite: Implications for the outgassing of carbonates / Roman Skala, Jana Ederova, Pavel Matejka, Friedrich Horz 571

43. How strong was impact-induced CO[subscript 2] degassing in the Cretaceous-Tertiary event? Numerical modeling of shock recovery experiments / Boris A.

Ivanov, Falko Langenhorst, Alexander Deutsch, Ulrich Hornemann 587

44. Laboratory impact experiments versus natural impact events / Paul S. DeCarli, Emma Bowden, Adrian P. Jones, G. David Price 595

45. Comparison of the osmium and chromium isotopic methods for the detection of meteoritic components in impactites: Examples from the Morokweng and Vredefort impact structures, South Africa / Christian Koeberl, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Alex Shukolyukov, Gunter W. Lugmair 607

46. Numerical modeling of the formation of large impact craters / Boris A. Ivanov, Natalia A. Artemieva 619

47. Multiple stages of condensation in impact-produced vapor clouds / Detlef de Niem 631

Astronomical Studies

48. On the completeness of the discovery rate of the potentially hazardous asteroids / Eric W. Elst 645

49. Possible sources of Earth crossers / Nina A. Solovaya, Eduard M. Pittich 651

50. Measurement of the lunar impact record for the past 3.5 b.y. and implications for the Nemesis theory / Richard A. Muller 659

51. Role of the galaxy in periodic impacts and mass extinctions on the Earth / Michael R. Rampino 667

52. Solar system linked to a gigantic interstellar cloud during the past 500 m.y.: Implications for a galactic theory of terrestrial catastrophism / Carlos A. Olano 679

Impacts and Extinction Mechanisms

53. Grazing meteoroids could ignite continental-scale fires / Vladimir V. Svetsov 685

54. Atmospheric erosion and radiation impulse induced by impacts / V.V. Shuvalov, N.A. Artemieva 695

55. Toxins produced by meteorite impacts and their possible role in a biotic mass extinction / M.V. Gerasimov 705

56. Modeling long-term climatic effects of impacts: First results / Thomas Luder, Willy Benz, Thomas F. Stocker 717.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813723566

OCLC:

49584078