Alessandro Montanari, Christian Koeberl

Impact Stratigraphy

The Italian Record

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 93
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-66368-3
• 2000
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9783540663683
• ISBN-10: 3540663681
• Artikelnr.: 09029535

Inhaltsangabe

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.