Impact Stratigraphy

The Italian Record

Alessandro Montanari, Christian Koeberl (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 366 Seiten

2000
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
9783540663683 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2000
• Reihe/Serie: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 366 p. 148 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 545 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Schlagworte: ejecta • impacts • K-T boundary • Meteorit • Sediment • Stratigraphie • Stratigraphy • Umbria-Marche sequence
• ISBN-13: 9783540663683 / 9783540663683
• Zustand: Neuware