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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.