The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution: With Special Reference to Large Precambrian and Australian Impacts

by Andrew Y. Glikson

When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution. Since the 1980s the discovery and study of asteroid impact ejecta in the oldest well-preserved terrains of Western Australia and South Africa, by Don Lowe, Gary Byerly, Bruce Simonson,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400763271
• ISBN13: 9789400763272
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"