Large meteorite impacts and planetary evolution / edited by B.O. Dressler, R.A.F. Grieve, and V.L. Sharpton.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dressler, Burkhard O.

Grieve, Richard A. F.

Sharpton, Virgil L.

Geological Society of America.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution (1992 : Sudbury, Ont.)

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 293.

Special paper ; 293

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meteorite craters--Congresses.

Cratering--Congresses.

Planets--Origin--Congresses.

Impact--Congresses.

Impact.

Cratering.

Meteorite craters.

Planets--Origin.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1994.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

The large impact process inferred from the geology of lunar multiring basins / Paul D. Spudis

Coincidence in time of the Imbrium basin impact and Apollo 15 KREEP volcanic flows : the case for impact-induced melting / Graham Ryder

Evidence from Magellan for unexpectedly deep complex craters on Venus / Virgil L. Sharpton

Large impact craters and basins on Venus, with implications for ring mechanics on the terrestrial planets / Jim S. Alexopoulos and William B. McKinnon

The effects of differential scaling of impact melt and crater dimensions on lunar and terrestrial craters : some brief examples / Mark J. Cintala and Richard A.F. Grieve

The Crisium basin : implications of an oblique impact for basin ring formation and cavity collapse / R.W. Wichman and P.H. Schultz

Experimental studies of geochemical aspects of impact cratering / O.I. Yakovlev and A.T. Basilevsky

Geomechanical models of impact cratering : Puchezh-Katunki structure / B.A. Ivanov

Hypervelocity impact : ejecta velocity, angle, and composition / Noreen Joyce Evans, M. Shahinpoor, and Thomas J. Ahrens

Impact-induced melting of planetary surfaces / John D. O'Keefe and Thomas J. Ahrens

A Late Devonian extraterrestrial impact and extinction in eastern Gondwana : geochemical, sedimentological, and faunal evidence / K. Wang, H.H.J. Geldsetzer, B.D.E. Chatterton

The conditions of shock metamorphism / Vilen I. Feldman

Tektite origin by hypervelocity asteroidal or cometary impact : target rocks, source craters, and mechanisms / Christian Koeberl

Impactites from Popigai crater / V.L. Masaitis

Pseudotachylites of the Beaverhead impact structure : geochemical, geochronological, petrographic, and field investigations / P.S. Fiske [and others].

Notes:

Papers from the International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution, August 31 through September 2, 1992, Sudbury, Ontario.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Large meteorite impacts and planetary evolution.

OCLC:

763151114

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