Biological Processes Associated With Impact Events

by Cockell, Charles; Koeberl, Christian; Gilmour, Iain

• ISBN13: 9783540257356
• ISBN10: 3540257357
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The diversity of papers presented in this volume attest to the fact that impact cratering is very much a biological process. This volume is the tenth in a series of books resulting from the activities of the scientific programme, "Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes" (IMPACT), by the European Science Foundation. The papers were presented at an international meeting at King's College, Cambridge in 2003. These papers investigate the effects of asteroid and comet impacts on a diversity of biological and evolutionary processes including the survival of organics and microbial ecosystems to the extinction of organisms.

Table of Contents

The Potential for Survival of Organic Matter in Fluid Inclusions at Impact Sites
J. Parnell, M. Baron and H. Wycherley	1	(20)
Geomicrobiology of Impact-Altered Rocks
C.S. Cockell, D.A. Fike, G.R. Osinski and P. Lee	21	(20)
Bacterial Spores Survive Simulated Meteorite Impact
G. Horneck	41	(14)
Impact-Generated Hydrothermal System – Constraints from the Large Paleoproterozoic Sudbury Crater, Canada
D.E. Ames, I.R. Jonasson, H.L. Gibson and K.O. Pope	55	(46)
Comparison of Bosumtwi Impact Crater (Ghana) and Crater Lake Volcanic Caldera (Oregon, USA): Implications for Biotic Recovery after Catastrophic Events
M.R. Rampino and C. Koeberl	101	(20)
Paleobiological Effects of the Late Cretaceous Wetumpka Marine impact, a 7.6-km Diameter Impact Structure, Gulf Coastal Plain, USA
D.T. King, Jr., L.W. Petruny and T.L. Neathery	121	(22)
The Sweet Aftermath: Environmental Changes and Biotic Restoration Following the Marine Mjolnir Impact (Vogian-Ryazanian Boundary, Barents Shelf)
M. Smelror and H. Dypvik	143	(36)
Guembelitria irregularis Bloom at the K-T Boundary: Morphological Abnormalities Induced by Impact-related Extreme Environmental Stress?
R. Coccioni and V. Luciani	179	(18)
Unravelling the Cretaceous-Paleogene (KT) Turnover, Evidence from Flora, Fauna and Geology
A. Ocampo, V. Vajda and E. Buffetaut	197	(24)
Impact and Wildfires – An Analysis of the K-T Event
C.M. Belcher	221	(24)
Continental Vertebrate Extinctions at the Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundaries: a Comparison
E. Buffetaut	245	(12)
Geochemical Search for Impact Signatures in Possible Impact-generated Units Associated with the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary in Southern England and Northern France
I. McDonald, G.J. Irvine, E. de Vos, A.S. Gale and W.U. Reimold	257	(30)
New Evidence for Impact from the Suvasvesi South Structure, Central East Finland
F. Donadini, J. Plado, S.C. Werner, J. Salminen, L.J. Pesonen and M. Lehtinen	287	(22)
Kardla Impact (Hiiumaa Island, Estonia) – Ejecta Blanket and Environmental Disturbances
S. Suuroja and K. Suuroja	309	(26)
Sediments and Impact Rocks filling the Boltysh Impact Crater
E.P. Gurov, S.P. Kelley, C. Koeberl and N.I. Dykan	335	(24)
Stones in the Sky: from the Main Belt to Earth-Crossing Orbits
D. Benest	359