Micrometeorites and the Mysteries of Our Origins

• Main Author: Maurette, Michel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Planetology.; Geobiology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Space sciences.; Astrobiology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

This book relates an attempt to decrypt the still-obscure first billion years of history of the young Earth, during a cataclysmic period during which our planet was heavily bombarded by bodies ranging in size from that of Mars to 0.1 mm sized tiny micrometeorites. It was thus found that micrometeori...