Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Dressler, Burkhard O.
• Grieve, Richard A. F.
• Sharpton, Virgil L.
• International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution (1st : 1992 : Sudbury, Ont.)

Description

ix, 348 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Special paper ; 293

Uniform Title

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 293.

Subjects

• Impact > Congresses
• Cratering > Congresses
• Meteorite craters > Congresses
• Planets > Origin > Congresses

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Large Impact Process Inferred from the Geology of Lunar Multiring Basins / P. D. Spudis -- 2. Coincidence in Time of the Imbrium Basin Impact and Apollo 15 KREEP Volcanic Flows: The Case for Impact-Induced Melting / G. Ryder -- 3. Evidence from Magellan for Unexpectedly Deep Complex Craters on Venus / V. L. Sharpton -- 4. Large Impact Craters and Basins on Venus, with Implications for Ring Mechanics on the Terrestrial Planets / J. S. Alexopoulos and W. B. McKinnon -- 5. The Effects of Differential Scaling of Impact Melt and Crater Dimensions on Lunar and Terrestrial Craters: Some Brief Examples / M. J. Cintala and R. A. F. Grieve -- 6. The Crisium Basin: Implications of an Oblique Impact for Basin Ring Formation and Cavity Collapse / R. W. Wichman and P. H. Schultz -- 7. Experimental Studies of Geochemical Aspects of Impact Cratering / O. I. Yakovlev and A. T. Basilevsky -- 8. Geomechanical Models of Impact Cratering: Puchezh-Katunki Structure / B. A. Ivanov --
• 9. Hypervelocity Impact: Ejecta Velocity, Angle, and Composition / N. J. Evans, M. Shahinpoor and T. J. Ahrens -- 10. Impact-Induced Melting of Planetary Surfaces / J. D. O'Keefe and T. J. Ahrens -- 11. A Late Devonian Extraterrestrial Impact and Extinction in Eastern Gondwana: Geochemical, Sedimentological, and Faunal Evidence / K. Wang, H. H. J. Geldsetzer and B. D. E. Chatterton -- 12. The Conditions of Shock Metamorphism / V. I. Feldman -- 13. Tektite Origin by Hypervelocity Asteroidal or Cometary Impact: Target Rocks, Source Craters, and Mechanisms / C. Koeberl -- 14. Impactites from Popigai Crater / V. L. Masaitis -- 15. Pseudotachylites of the Beaverhead Impact Structure: Geochemical, Geochronological, Petrographic, and Field Investigations / P. S. Fiske, R. B. Hargraves, T. C. Onstott, C. Koeberl and S. B. Hougen -- 16. Pseudotachylites of the Vredefort Dome and the Surrounding Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa / W. U. Reimold and W. P. Colliston --
• 17. Breccia Veins and Dykes Associated with the Roter Kamm Crater, Namibia / J. J. Degenhardt, Jr., P. C. Buchanan, A. M. Reid and R. McG. Miller -- 18. Acraman: A Major Impact Structure from the Neoproterozoic of Australia / G. E. Williams -- 19. Allochthonous Impact-Shocked Rocks and Superimposed Deformations at the Beaverhead Site in Southwest Montana / R. B. Hargraves, K. S. Kellogg, P. S. Fiske and S. B. Hougen -- 20. Preliminary Results of the U.S. Geological Survey-Iowa Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Bureau Manson Core Drilling Project / R. R. Anderson, J. B. Hartung, B. J. Witzke, E. M. Shoemaker and D. J. Roddy -- 21. The Zhamanshin Impact Feature: A New Class of Complex Crater?

ISBN

0813722934

LCCN

94034436

OCLC

ocm31011321

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries