Impact Cratering: Processes and Products

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Impact cratering is arguably the most ubiquitous geological process in the Solar System. It has played an important role in Earth’s history, shaping the geological landscape, affecting the evolution of life, and generating economic resources. However, it was only in the latter half of the 20th century that the importance of impact cratering as a geological process was recognized and only during the past couple of decades that the study of meteorite impact structures has moved into the mainstream. This book seeks to fill a critical gap in the literature by providing an overview text covering broad aspects of the impact cratering process and aimed at graduate students, professionals and researchers alike. It introduces readers to the threat and nature of impactors, the impact cratering process, the products, and the effects – both destructive and beneficial. A series of chapters on the various techniques used to study impact craters provide a foundation for anyone studying impact craters for the first time.

Content:
Chapter One Impact Cratering: Processes and Products (pages 1–20): Gordon R. Osinski and Elisabetta Pierazzo
Chapter Two Population of Impactors and the Impact Cratering Rate in the Inner Solar System (pages 21–31): Patrick Michel and Alessandro Morbidelli
Chapter Three The Contact and Compression Stage of Impact Cratering (pages 32–42): H. Jay Melosh
Chapter Four Excavation and Impact Ejecta Emplacement (pages 43–59): Gordon R. Osinski, Richard A. F. Grieve and Livio L. Tornabene
Chapter Five The Modification Stage of Crater Formation (pages 60–75): Thomas Kenkmann, Gareth S. Collins and Kai Wunnemann
Chapter Six Impact?Induced Hydrothermal Activity (pages 76–89): Kalle Kirsimae and Gordon R. Osinski
Chapter Seven Impactites: Their Characteristics and Spatial Distribution (pages 90–105): Richard A. F. Grieve and Ann M. Therriault
Chapter Eight Shock Metamorphism (pages 106–124): Ludovic Ferriere and Gordon R. Osinski
Chapter Nine Impact Melting (pages 125–145): Gordon R. Osinski, Richard A. F. Grieve, Cassandra Marion and Anna Chanou
Chapter Ten Environmental Effects of Impact Events (pages 146–156): Elisabetta Pierazzo and H. Jay Melosh
Chapter Eleven The Geomicrobiology of Impact Structures (pages 157–176): Charles S. Cockell, Gordon R. Osinski and Mary A. Voytek
Chapter Twelve Economic Deposits at Terrestrial Impact Structures (pages 177–193): Richard A. F. Grieve
Chapter Thirteen Remote Sensing of Impact Craters (pages 194–210): Shawn P. Wright, Livio L. Tornabene and Michael S. Ramsey
Chapter Fourteen Geophysical Studies of Impact Craters (pages 211–222): Joanna Morgan and Mario Rebolledo?Vieyra
Chapter Fifteen Projectile Identification in Terrestrial Impact Structures and Ejecta Material (pages 223–239): Steven Goderis, Francois Paquay and Philippe Claeys
Chapter Sixteen The Geochronology of Impact Craters (pages 240–253): Simon P. Kelley and Sarah C. Sherlock
Chapter Seventeen Numerical Modelling of Impact Processes (pages 254–270): Gareth S. Collins, Kai Wunnemann, Natalia Artemieva and Elisabetta Pierazzo
Chapter Eighteen Comparison of Simple Impact Craters: A Case Study of Meteor and Lonar Craters (pages 271–289): Horton E. Newsom, Shawn P. Wright, Saumitra Misra and Justin J. Hagerty
Chapter Nineteen Comparison of Mid?Size Terrestrial Complex Impact Structures: A Case Study (pages 290–305): Gordon R. Osinski and Richard A. F. Grieve
Chapter Twenty Processes and Products of Impact Cratering: Glossary and Definitions (pages 306–309): Gordon R. Osinski