The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution

1. A paradigm shift in Earth science

2. Encounters in space

3. Lunar impacts and the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) in the Earth-Moon system.

4. Impact cratering and ejecta dynamics

5.  Identification of impact structures

6. Impact ejecta and fallout units

7. Extraterrestrial geochemical, isotopic and mineralogical signatures

8. Precambrian asteroid impacts

 9. Very large impact structures

10. Asteroid impact clusters and isotopic age peaks 

11. Australian large asteroid impact and possible impact structures

12. Impacts and mass extinctions

13. Uniformitarian models and the role of asteroid impacts in Earth evolution.

14. The current danger

Endorsements:

"Congratulations, Andrew, this volume really captures the science, its multiple facets, and, for your many colleagues, what can be accomplished during a dedicated career."

Gary Byerly Fenton Alumni Professor of Geology and Dean of the Graduate School 

-------------------------------------------------------------- "It is a pleasure to see that the record of asteroidal impacts (including probable sites) and their geological effects on our planet has been thoroughly documented in this latest book by Andrew Glikson. While this compilation is likely to represent just the "tip of the iceberg" of the full impact related geology, it nevertheless creates a better wholistic view of this phenomenon, than previous publications."

Victor Gostin Professor of Geology Department of Geology and Geophysics The University of Adelaide

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"The paper is a very ambitious summary of many of the key subjects related to the role of impacts in geologic history and, in the end, presents an argument that impacts have driven many of the large-scale events of geologic history, from crustal to biological evolution."

Professor D.R. Lowe School of Earth Sciences Stanford University

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"This monograph is a brilliant synopsis of the role over geological time of asteroid impacts on the evolution of planet Earth." ... " Dr Glikson, is not just an expert on the topic of asteroid impacts, he has consistently, and rightly so, advocated for some 40 years that large asteroid impacts may have had an important, if not primary, role in shaping the tectonics of Hadean and Palaeoarchean times. Indeed, in the early years of his work on asteroids and their function in Archaean tectono-thermal events, Glikson was well ahead of his time. In this monograph Glikson has expertly assembled what is known,