Impact Tectonics

✍ Scribed by Wolf U. Reimold, Roger L. Gibson (auth.), Professor Christian Koeberl, Docent Herbert Henkel (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 565
• Series: Impact Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the latest of eight books as a result of the activities of the scientific program on ”The Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes” (IMPACT) of the European Science Foundation (ESF). The ESF is the European association of national funding organisations of fundamental research, with more than 60 member organisations from more than 20 countries. One of the main goals of ESF is to bring European scientists together to work on topics of common interest. The ESF IMPACT program deals with all aspect of impact research, mainly through the organisation of workshops, exchange program, short course, and related activities. An important aspect of the program is to stimulate interdisciplinary and international research. Impacts of asteroids or comets on the earth surface have played an important role in the evolution of the planet. The ESF IMPACT program is an interdisciplinary program aimed at understanding impact processes and their effect on the earth system, including environmental, biological, and geological changes, and consequences for the biodiversity of ecosystems. The key goal of the program, to comprehend the processes that are responsible for these interactions, has been met with by eight workshops and published proceedings from these. The workshop from which this volume resulted, was devoted to impact tectonic studies. It was located in the small town of Mora in the western part of the ring basin of the very large Siljan impact structure in Sweden.

✦ Table of Contents

“Pseudotachylites” in Large Impact Structures....Pages 1-53
The Mechanics of Pseudotachylite Formation in Impact Events....Pages 55-80
Silicified Cone-in-Cone Structures from Erfoud (Morocco): A Comparison with Impact-Generated Shatter Cones....Pages 81-110
Redistribution of Lithologies in Impact-induced Dikes of Impact Structures....Pages 111-129
The Preliminary Analysis of Polygonal Impact Craters within Greater Hellas Region, Mars....Pages 131-160
BP and Oasis Impact Structures, Libya: Remote Sensing and Field Studies....Pages 161-190
Late Modification-Stage Tectonic Deformation of the Popigai Impact Structure, Russia....Pages 191-210
Settings of Meteorite Impact Structures in the Svecofennian Crustal Domain....Pages 211-245
Geophysical Investigations of the Siljan Impact Structure — A Short Review....Pages 247-283
Mjølnir Crater as a Result of Oblique Impact: Asymmetry Evidence Constrains Impact Direction and Angle....Pages 285-306
The Duobblon Structure - A Small Segment of a Large Precambrian Impact Structure?....Pages 307-322
Åvike Bay — a 10 km Diameter Possible Impact Structure at the Bothnian Sea Coast of Central Sweden.....Pages 323-340
The Structure and Age of the Kaali Main Crater, Island of Saaremaa, Estonia....Pages 341-355
The Lockne Crater: Revision and Reassessment of Structure and Impact Stratigraphy....Pages 357-388
A Study of Impact Fracturing and Electric Resistivity Related to the Lockne Impact Structure, Sweden....Pages 389-404
Hydrocode Simulation of the Lockne Marine Target Impact Event....Pages 405-422
Numerical Simulation of Shock Propagation in Heterogeneous Solids....Pages 423-445
The Kentland Impact Crater, Indiana (USA): An Apatite Fission-Track Age Determination Attempt....Pages 447-466
The Combined Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of end-Permian Kerogens....Pages 467-478
Economic Mineral Deposits in Impact Structures: A Review....Pages 479-552

✦ Subjects

Geology; Geophysics/Geodesy; Meteorology/Climatology