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Meteorite Impact References by Location
-Terrestrial, General

last edited: 6/14/04

 

Terrestrial Impact Sites

*Aherns, T.J., and O'Keefe, J.D., 1990, Large impact craters on the Earth (abstr.): Abstracts for the international workshop on meteorite impact on the early Earth, LPI Contribution, v.746, p. 3

*Barringer, R.W., 1964, World's meteorite craters, "astroblemes": Meteoritics, v.2, p. 169-174.

*Beals, C.S., 1958, Fossil meteorite craters: Sci. Amer., v.199, n.1, p.2039

*Beals, C.S., 1958, A survey of terrestrial craters: Nature, n.4608, p. 559.

*Beals, C.S., Ferguson, G.M., and Landau, A., 1956, Analogies between lunar and terrestrial topography: Jour. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada., v.50, p. 203-250.

*Beals, C.S., and Halliday, I., 1965, Impact craters of the earth and moon: Jour. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada, v.59, p. 199-216.

*Beals, C.S., Innes, M.J.S., and Rottinberg, J.A., 1963, Fossil meteorite craters: in-Middlehurst, B.M., and Kuiper, G.P., eds., The Moon, meteorites, and comets: Chicago, Ill., Univ. of Chicago Press,  v.4, Chapter 9,p. 235-284.

*Boon, J.D., 1938, Established and supposed examples of meteoritic craters and structures: Field and Lab, v.6, p. 44-56.

*Boon, G.D., and Albritton, C.C., 1937, Meteorite scars and ancient rocks: Field and Lab, v.5, p. 53.

*Bucher, W.H., 1965, The largest so-called meteorite scars on continents as demonstrably tied to major terrestrial structures: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., v.123, p.897-903.

*Classen, J., 1977, Catalogue of 230 certain, probable, possible, and doubtful impact structures: Meteoritics, v.12, p. 61-78.

*Dachille, F., 1962, Interactions of the Earth with very large meteorites: Bull. of South Carolina Academy of Science, v.24, p .7.

*Dence, M.R., 1972, The nature and significance of terrestrial impact structures: Eath Phys. Branch Contr., v.393 (93 sites).

*Dence, M.R., 1972, The nature and significance of terrestrial impact structures: Proc. 24th Int. Geol. Congr., Sect. 65, p. 77-89.

*Dence, M.R., Grieve, R.A.F., and Robertson, P.B., 1977, Terrestrial impact structures- principal characteristics and energy considerations: in- D.J. Roddy, R.O. Pepin, and R.E. Merrill  (eds.), Impact and explosion cratering, Pergamon, New York, N.Y., p.247-276.

*Dietz, R.S., 1946, Geological structures possibly related to lunar craters: Pop. Astronomy, v.54, p. 465-467.

*Dietz, R.S., 1961, Astroblemes: Sci. Amer., v.205, p. 51-58.

*Dietz, R.S., 1963, Astroblemes-ancient meteorite scars on Earth: in- The solar system, v.4, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

*Dietz, R.S., 1963, Astroblemes-ancient meteorite impact structures on the Earth: in-Middlehurst, B.M., and Kuiper, G.P., eds., The Moon, meteorites, and comets: Chicago, Ill., Univ. of Chicago Press,  v.4, Chapter 9, p. 285-.

*Freeberg, J.H., Terrestrial impact structures-a bibliography: USGS Bull. 1220, Supplement 1965-68 and Bull. 1320, 1969.

*Frey, H., 1977, Early impact basins and the onset of plate tectonics: NASA/GSFC X-doc X-922-77-172.

*Frey, H., 1980, Crustal evolution of the early Earth- the role of major impacts: Precambrian Res., v.10, p. 195-216.

*Glikson, A.Y., 1976, Earliest Precambrian ultramafic-mafic volcanic rocks-ancient oceanic crust or relic terrestrial maria?: Geology, v.4, p. 201-205.

*Goodwin, A.M., 1976, Giant impacting and the development of continental crust: in- B.F. Windley, ed., The early history of the Earth. Wiley, New York, N.Y., p. 77-98.

*Green, D.H., 1972, Archean greenstone belts may include equivalents of lunar maria?: Earth and Planetary Sci. Letters, v.15, p. 263-270.

*Grieve, R.A.F., 1980, Impact bombardment and its role in proto-continental growth on the early Earth: Precambrian Res., v.10, p 217-247.

*Grieve, R.A.F., 1987, Terrestrial impact structures: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v.15, p. 245-270.

*Grieve, R.A.F., 1988, Terrestrial impact craters-an overview (abstr.): AGU 1988 fall meeting, EOS )Trans. AGU), v.69, n.44, p.1289.

*Grieve, R.A.F., Pilkington, M., and Parmentier, E.M., 1990, Large impact basins and the early Earth (abstr.): Abstracts for the international workshop on meteorite impact on the early Earth, LPI Contribution, v.746, p. 18-19.

*Grieve, R.A.F., and Robertson, P.B., 1979, The terrestrial cratering record I: Icarus, v.38, p.212-229.

*Grolier, M.J., 1985, Bibliography of terrestrial impact structures: NASA Tech. Memorandum 87567, Sept. 1985, 540 p.

*Hartman, W.K., 1977, Cratering in the solar system: Sci. Amer., Jan. 1977, v.236, n.1, p. 84-99.

*Hartman, W.K., et al, 1980, Chronology of planetary volcanism by comparative studies of planetary cratering: in- Basaltic volcanism of the terrestrial planets, Chapter 8.

*Hey, M.H., 1966, Catalogue of meteoritics: London (139 sites).

*Hut, P., Shoemaker, E.M., Alvarez, W., and Montanari, A., 1991, Astronomical mechanisms and geologic evidence for multiple impacts on Earth (abstr.): Abstracts of papers submitted to the 22nd lunar and planetary science conference, v.22, 1991, p. 603-604.

*Khryanina, L.P., and Ivanov, O.P., 1977, Structure of meteorite craters and astroblemes: Dokl. Acad. Nauk SSR, v.233, p. 457-460 (in Russian).

*King, E., 1976, Space geology: New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., p. 95-129.

*Krinov, E.L., 1966, Giant meteorites: Pergamon, Elmsford, N.Y.

*Matsui, T., and Kuramoto, K., 1990, A possible role of heavy bombardment in continental growth pattern (abstr.): Abstracts for the international workshop on meteorite impact on the early Earth, LPI Contribution, v.746, p. 26-27.

*Melosh, H.J., 1990, Giant impacts and the thermal state of the early Earth: in- Origin of the Earth, Newson, H.E., et al, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, N.Y., N.Y., p. 69-83.

*Millman, P.M., 1971, The space scars of Earth: Nature, v.232, p. 161-164.

*Monod, T., 1965, Contribution a'l'establishment d'une liste d'accidents circulaires d'origine meteoritique, cryptoexposive, etc.: Ifan-Dakar (95 sites).

*Morgan, J.W., Higuchi, H., Ganapathy, R., and Anders, E., 1975, Meteoritic material in four terrestrial meteorite craters: Proc. 6th Lunar Sci. Conf., p.1609-1623.

*O'Connell, E., 1965, A catalogue of meteorite craters and related features with a guide in the literature: Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif. Pub. P-3087, 218 p. (116 sites).

*Palme, H., Janssen, M-J, Takahashi, H., Anders, E., and Hertogen, J., 1978, Meteorite material at five large impact structures: Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta, v.42, p. 313-323.

*Palme, H., Wolf, R., and Grieve, R.A.F., 1978, New data on meteoritic material at terrestrial impact craters: Lunar Planet. Sci. X, p.856-858.

*Pike, R.J., 1972, Geometric similitude of lunar and terrestrial craters: Internat. Geol. Cong., 24th, Montreal, Canada, 1972, Comptes rendus, sec. 15, p.  41-47.

*Roddy, D.J., 1977, Large-scale impact and explosion craters- comparisons or morphological and structural analogues: in- impact and explosion cratering, D.J. Roddy, R.O. Pepin, and R.B. Merrill, eds., Pergamon, Elmsford, N.Y., p. 185-246.

*Sandner, W., 1977, Studien uber Meteoritenkrater: Sirius, Heppenheim (West Germany) (138 sites).

*Shoemaker, E.M., 1977, Why study impact craters?: in- Impact and explosion cratering, D.J. Roddy, R.O. Pepin, and R.B. Merrill, Pergamon, Elmsford, N.Y., p. 1-10.

*Shoemaker, E.M., and Eggleton, R.E., 1961, Terrestrial features of impact origin: in- Geophysical Laboratory/Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Cratering Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1961, Proceedings, Livermore, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Report UCRL-6438, 27 p.

*Short, N.M., 1965, A comparison of features characteristic of nuclear explosion craters and astroblemes: in- Geological problems in lunar research, New York Acad. Sci. Annals, v.123, art.2, p. 573-616.

*Short, N.M., 1975, Planetary geology: Englewood Cliffs, N.Y., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 361 p.

*Short, N.M., and Bunch, T.E., 1968, A world-wide inventory of features characteristic of rocks associated with presumed meteorite impact structures: in- French, B.M., and Short, N.M., eds., Shock metamorphism of natural materials:, Mono Book Corp., Baltimore, Maryland (52 sites).

*v. Englehardt, W., 1974, Meteortenkrater: Naturwiss., v.61, p. 413-422, Heidelberg (in German) (95 sites).

*Weiblen, P.W., and Schulz, K.J., 1978, Is there any record of meteorite impact in the Archean rocks of North America?: Proc. 9th Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf., p. 2749-2773.

*Wetherill, G.W., 1975, Late heavy bombardment of the Moon and terrestrial planets: Proc. 6th Lunar Sci. Conf., p. 1539-1561.

*Zotkin, I.T., Dabizha, A.I., and Fedynsky, V.V., 1978, The cratering on the Earth's surface by meteorite impact: in- Lunar and Planetary Science, v. IX, p. 1303-1305, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas.