Dear Friends, There is an open-access summary paper about impact cratering as a fundamental process in geoscience and planetary science by a couple of well-known planetary geologists that can be downloaded from the “Journal of Earth System Science”. The paper is:
Pati, J. K., and W. U. Reimold, 2007, mpact cratering — fundamental process in geoscience and planetary science. Journal of Earth System Science. vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 81-169. The PDF file of this article can be accessed from: http://www.springerlink.com/content/fv7626hw45891713/fulltext.pdf or http://www.springerlink.com/content/fv7626hw45891713/?p=88f56a6373494a8aac46873c9fa9173f&pi=0 Other Impact-related PDF files that can be downloaded free of charge from the Internet are: 1. Ames, D. E., A. Davidson, and N. Wodicka, 2008, Geology of the Giant Sudbury Polymetallic Mining Camp, Ontario, Canada. Economic Geology. vol. 103, no. 5, pp. 1057-1077 DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.5.1057 This paper has a wonderful summary along with color geological maps of the relationship between metaliferous ores and geology of the Sudbury Impact Structure. PDF file can be found at: http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/Sudbury/Ames/ames08.pdf Abstract can be found at: http://econgeol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/extract/103/5/1057 2. A 14 MB Geologic Map of the Sudbury structure can be downloaded from: http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/Sudbury/Ames/ames_map08.pdf 4. Reimold W. U. and Koeberl, C. (2008) Catastrophes, Extinctions and Evolution: 50 years of Impact Cratering Studies. In Harsh Gupta and Fareeduddin (Editors), Recent Advances in Earth System Sciences, Memoir no. 66, Geological Society of India, pp. 69-110. PDF file at: http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/319-Impact%20review-GeolSoc-India-Jubilee-2008.pdf http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/ 4. Chadwick, B., Ph. Claeys and B. Simonson, 2001, New evidence for a large Palaeoproterozoic impact: Spherules in a dolomite layer in the Ketilidian orogen. South Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society of London. vol. 158, pp. 331-340. PDF file available from: http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Pubs/Chadwick-etal-01.pdf http://we.vub.ac.be/~dglg/Web/Claeys/Claeys.htm Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list