Large meteorite impacts and planetary evolution

Title
  1. Large meteorite impacts and planetary evolution / edited by B.O. Dressler, R.A.F. Grieve, and V.L. Sharpton.
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  1. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1994.

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Additional authors
  1. Dressler, Burkhard O.
  2. Grieve, Richard A. F.
  3. Sharpton, Virgil L.
  4. International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution (1st : 1992 : Sudbury, Ont.)
Description
  1. ix, 348 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.
Series statement
  1. Special paper ; 293
Uniform title
  1. Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 293.
Subject
  1. Meteorite craters > Congresses
  2. Cratering > Congresses
  3. Planets > Origin > Congresses
  4. Impact > Congresses
Contents
  1. 1. The Large Impact Process Inferred from the Geology of Lunar Multiring Basins / P. D. Spudis -- 2. Coincidence in Time of the Imbrium Basin Impact and Apollo 15 KREEP Volcanic Flows: The Case for Impact-Induced Melting / G. Ryder -- 3. Evidence from Magellan for Unexpectedly Deep Complex Craters on Venus / V. L. Sharpton -- 4. Large Impact Craters and Basins on Venus, with Implications for Ring Mechanics on the Terrestrial Planets / J. S. Alexopoulos and W. B. McKinnon -- 5. The Effects of Differential Scaling of Impact Melt and Crater Dimensions on Lunar and Terrestrial Craters: Some Brief Examples / M. J. Cintala and R. A. F. Grieve -- 6. The Crisium Basin: Implications of an Oblique Impact for Basin Ring Formation and Cavity Collapse / R. W. Wichman and P. H. Schultz -- 7. Experimental Studies of Geochemical Aspects of Impact Cratering / O. I. Yakovlev and A. T. Basilevsky -- 8. Geomechanical Models of Impact Cratering: Puchezh-Katunki Structure / B. A. Ivanov --
  2. 9. Hypervelocity Impact: Ejecta Velocity, Angle, and Composition / N. J. Evans, M. Shahinpoor and T. J. Ahrens -- 10. Impact-Induced Melting of Planetary Surfaces / J. D. O'Keefe and T. J. Ahrens -- 11. A Late Devonian Extraterrestrial Impact and Extinction in Eastern Gondwana: Geochemical, Sedimentological, and Faunal Evidence / K. Wang, H. H. J. Geldsetzer and B. D. E. Chatterton -- 12. The Conditions of Shock Metamorphism / V. I. Feldman -- 13. Tektite Origin by Hypervelocity Asteroidal or Cometary Impact: Target Rocks, Source Craters, and Mechanisms / C. Koeberl -- 14. Impactites from Popigai Crater / V. L. Masaitis -- 15. Pseudotachylites of the Beaverhead Impact Structure: Geochemical, Geochronological, Petrographic, and Field Investigations / P. S. Fiske, R. B. Hargraves, T. C. Onstott, C. Koeberl and S. B. Hougen -- 16. Pseudotachylites of the Vredefort Dome and the Surrounding Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa / W. U. Reimold and W. P. Colliston --
  3. 17. Breccia Veins and Dykes Associated with the Roter Kamm Crater, Namibia / J. J. Degenhardt, Jr., P. C. Buchanan, A. M. Reid and R. McG. Miller -- 18. Acraman: A Major Impact Structure from the Neoproterozoic of Australia / G. E. Williams -- 19. Allochthonous Impact-Shocked Rocks and Superimposed Deformations at the Beaverhead Site in Southwest Montana / R. B. Hargraves, K. S. Kellogg, P. S. Fiske and S. B. Hougen -- 20. Preliminary Results of the U.S. Geological Survey-Iowa Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Bureau Manson Core Drilling Project / R. R. Anderson, J. B. Hartung, B. J. Witzke, E. M. Shoemaker and D. J. Roddy -- 21. The Zhamanshin Impact Feature: A New Class of Complex Crater?
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Papers from the International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution, August 31 through September 2, 1992, Sudbury, Ontario.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.