Impacts and the Early Earth

Only 10% of the 150 or so known impact craters on Earth date from the early Precambrian Era, a time period covering some 88% of the Earth's history. Yet this Era encompasses fundamental events in the origin and evolution of our planet from the origin of life itself to the development of continents. The papers in this volume were presented at a workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation Scientific Network on Impact cratering held in Cambridge, UK, in December 1998. The papers outline the present state of scientific understanding of the role impacts may have played in the biological and geological evolution of the Early Earth.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Iai Gilmour (Editore), Koeberl (Editore), Koeberl (Editore), Iain Gilmour (Editore), Christian Koeberl (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 19.11.2013
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geologia
• EAN: 9783540670926
• ISBN: 978-3-540-67092-6
• Numero di pagine: 448
• Illustrazioni: XVIII, 448 p. 185 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 23.5 x 1.8 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 680 g
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences > .91; Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences > 91
• Categorie: Marine, Evolution, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), Ozeanographie (Meereskunde), Meere und Ozeane, Geologie und die Lithosphäre, petrography, RemoteSensing, originoflife, impactcraters, EarlyEarth