Geological and Biological Effects of Impact Events

by Buffetaut, Eric; Koeberl, Christian; Esf Impact

• ISBN13: 9783540422860
• ISBN10: 3540422862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This collection of papers covers a wide time span, ranging from the Late Devonian mass extinction to the Tuguska event in 1908. The focus is on impact processes affecting the Earth system and consequently biodiversity of ecosystems. Some theoretical papers on impact models are also included. The book is of value to geologists, paleontologists, biologists and astrobiologists.

Table of Contents

Ostracods Prove that the Frasnian/Famennian Boundary Mass Extinction was a Major and Abrupt Crisis	p. 1
Lateral Variations in End-Permian Organic Matter in Northern Italy	p. 11
Stable-Isotope and Trace Element Stratigraphy of the Jurassic/Cretaceous Boundary, Bosso River Gorge, Italy	p. 25
Phytoplankton Blooms in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary Beds of the Barents Sea Possibly Induced by the Mj0lnir Impact	p. 69
A Geographic Database Approach to the KT Boundary	p. 83
Effects of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event on Bony Fishes	p. 141
K/T Impact Remains in an Ammonite from the Uppermost Maastrichtian of Bidart Section (French Basque Country)	p. 159
Petrographic and Geochemical Studies in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, Pernambuco - Paraiba Basin, Brazil	p. 167
Effects of Bioturbation through the Late Eocene Impactoclastic Layer near Massignano, Italy	p. 197
The Ries and Steinheim Meteorite Impacts and their Effect on Environmental Conditions in Time and Space	p. 217
Radiation Effects of the Chicxulub Impact Event	p. 237
Extraterrestrial Material Deposition after Impacts into Continental and Oceanic Sites	p. 249
Petrophysics Hints at Unexplored Impact Physics	p. 265
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