Asteroids Impacts, Crustal Evolution and Related Mineral Systems with Special Reference to Australia (eBook)

Andrew Y. Glikson, an Earth and paleo-climate scientist, studied geology at the University of Jerusalem and graduated at the University of Western Australia in 1968. He conducted geological surveys of the oldest geological formations in Australia, South Africa, India and Canada; studied large asteroid impacts, including effects on the atmosphere and oceans of mass extinction of species. Since 2005 he studied the relations between climate and human evolution. He was active in communicating nuclear issues and climate change evidence to the public and parliament through papers, lectures, conferences and presentations.Andrew Glikson has published already several earlier book volumes with Springer, among which "The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution" in 2013, "Climate, Fire and Human Evolution: The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene", (with C. Groves), in 2016 and "The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth" in 2017.Franco Pirajno is a recognized expert on mineral systems, with more than 50 years of experience, in industry, academia and government. He has extensive knowledge of tectonics, ore deposit geology in: Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, southwest Pacific, China, southern Siberia, Greenland and Australia. He is the author of four books and a monograph on mineral deposits and of more than 175 peer-reviewed papers, 20 peer-reviewed geological maps and 68 unpublished company reports.

Introduction: II.               Asteroid impacts in time and space III.              Criteria for identification of asteroid impact events IV.              Asteroid impacts in time IV.1  Archean asteroid impacts           IV.1.1  ~3.46-3.47 Ga bombardment                 IV.1.1.1  Miralga Creek impacts (~3.47 Ga)                 IV.1.1.2  Marble Bar impacts (~3.46 Ga)                       IV.1.2  ~3.22-3.25 Ga bombardment                       IV.1.2.1  Sulphur Springs unconformities and olistostrome (~3.22 Ga)           IV.1.3  ~2.63-2.48 Ga bombardment                       IV.1.2.2  Jeerinah Impact layer and Carawine tsunami breccia (~2.63 Ga)                       IV.1.2.3  Paraburdoo spherule layer (~2.57 Ga)                       IV.1.2.4  Spherule Marker Bed (~2.56 Ga)                       IV.1.2.5  Dales Gorge Spherule layer (~2.48 Ga) IV.2  Proterozoic asteroid impacts IV.3  Phanerozoic asteroid impacts V.     Australian Asteroid impacts V.1   Exposed impact structures >10 km in diameter          V.1.1  Acraman (~40-90 km)          V.1.2  Yarrabubba (~30-70 km)          V.1.3  Shoemaker (~29-31 km)          V.1.4  Lawn Hill (~18 km)          V.1.5  Strangways (~25-40 km)          V.1.6  Amelia Creek (~20x12 km)          V.1.7  Cleanskin (~15 km)          V.1.8  Glikson (~14 km) V.1.9    Gosses Bluff (~12 km) V.1.10  Kelly West (~8-20 km)       V.1.11  Spider (~11-13 km)  V.1.12  Goyder (~9-12 km)  V.1.13  Impact structures V.2   Buried asteroid impacts          V.2.1   Warburton East (~200 km)          V.2.2   Warburton West (~200 km)           V.2.3  Woodleigh (~120 km)           V.2.4  Talundilly (84 km)           V.2.4  Gnargoo (~75 km)           V.2.5  Tookoonooka (~55 km)           V.2.6  Mount Ashmore (>50 km)           V.2.7  Coompana (~44 km)           V.2.6  Yallalie (~12 km)           V.2.7  Lake Raeside (~11 km)  V.3   Meteorite impact craters          V.3.1  Goat Paddock (~6 km)          V.3.2  Liverpool (~1.6 km)          V.3.3  Darwin (~1.2 km          V.3.4  Wolfe Creek (~0.88 km))                    V.3.5  Hickman (0.36 km)    V.3.6  Boxhole (0.17 km)    V.3.7  Henbury craters    V.3.8  Other impact craters    V.4   Magnetic and gravity signatures of buried asteroid impact structures    VI.    Asteroid impacts and ore genesis            VI.1  A global perspective            VI.2  Australian impact structures associated with mineralization   VII.  Asteroids and crustal evolution