Impact Stratigraphy The Italian Record /

• Main Authors: Montanari, Alessandro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Koeberl, Christian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 93
• Subjects: Geology.; Sedimentology.; Geophysics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.
• Physical Description: XIII, 366 p. 148 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540483663
• ISSN: 0930-0317 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0010313

The 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. The bookcan also be used by students and researches as a field guide to some of the most important Italian impact layers.