Impact Stratigraphy - The Italian Record

This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy, with emphasis on the recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field, by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the Umbria-Marche sequence in Central Italy, with an almost perfect stratigraphic record over the last 200 Million years. A general introduction to impact cratering and a discussion of distal ejecta and impact layers around the world is followed by a detailed description of the record of the impact of extraterrestrial bodies in sediments of the Umbria-Marche Apennines. The volume is of interest to a diverse audience in the geological and planetary sciences, ranging from (upper) undergraduate to research level. This book can also be used by students and researchers as a field guide to some of the most important Italian impact layers.

List of contents

Introduction: Impact cratering as a geological process.- Distal ejecta and tektites.- Important distal ejecta layers and their source craters.- The umbria-marche sequence.- Impact stratigraphy in the U-M sequence.- Documentation and laboratory techniques.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Koeberl, Alessandr Montanari, Alessandro Montanari
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9783540663683
• ISBN: 978-3-540-66368-3
• No. of pages: 366
• Weight: 554 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 366 p. 148 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences; Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology