Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

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Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events Charles Cockell, Christian Koeberl, Iain Gilmour
Type:	eBook
Released:	2009
Publisher:	Springer
Page Count:	387
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	3642065155
ISBN-13:	9783642065156

The diversity of papers presented in this volume attest to the fact that impact cratering is very much a biological process.Biological Processes Associated with ... Textbook This volume is the tenth in a series of books resulting from the activities of the scientific programme, "Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes" (IMPACT), by the European Science Foundation. The papers were presented at an international meeting at King's College, Cambridge in 2003. These papers investigate the effects of asteroid and comet impacts on a diversity of biological and evolutionary processes including the survival of organics and microbial ecosystems to the extinction of organisms.