Impacts and the Early Earth

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gilmour, Iain (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Koeberl, Christian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 91
• Subjects: Geophysics.; Geology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Oceanography.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Atmospheric Sciences.

Only 10% of the 150 or so known impact craters on Earth date from the early Precambrian Era, a time period covering 88% of the Earths history. Yet this Era encompasses events in the origin and evolution of our planet from the origin of life itself to the developments of the continents. The papers in...