Earth cratering record and impact energy flux in the last 150 Ma

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 271-281

  Montanari, A ^a,b   Campo Bagatin, A ^c   Farinella, P ^c  

^a Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco   (Italy)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001429240     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(97)00130-x     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Alvarez, L. W., Alvarez, W., Asaro, F. and Michel, H. V. (1980) Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. Science 208, 1095-1108.
2. Alvarez, W. and Muller, R. A. (1984) Evidence from crater ages for periodic impacts on Earth. Nature 308, 718-720.
3. Asaro, F., Alvarez, W., Michel, H. V., Alvarez, L. W., Anders, M. H., Montanari, A. and Kennett, J. P. (1988) Possible world-wide Middle Miocene iridum anomaly and its relationship to periodicity of impacts and extinctions. Lunar Planet. Inst. 673, 6-7
4. Asaro, F. and Montanari, A. (1988) Small Late Eocene iridium anomalies in the Contessa Highway III section. In The Eocene-Oligocene Boundary in the Marche-Umbria Basin (Italy), eds I. Premoli Silva, R. Coccioni and A. Montanari, pp. 187-188. IUGS Special Publication, F.lli Aniballi Publishers, Ancona.
5. Bailey, M. E., Clube, S. V. M., Hahn, G., Napier, W. M. and Valsecchi, G. B. (1994) Hazards due to giant comets : Climate and short-term catastrophism. In Hazards due to Comets and Asteroids, ed. T. Gehreis, pp. 479-533. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
6. Baksi, A. K. (1990) Search for periodicity in global events in the geologic record : Quo vadimus? Geology 18, 983-986.
7. Boiko, A. K., Vailler, A. A. and Vishnyak, M. M. (1985) On the age of the Boltish depression (in Russian). Geol. Zh. 45, 86-90.
8. Bottomley, R. J. and York, D. (1988) Age measurement of the submarine Montagnais impact crater. Geophys. Res. Lett. 15, 1409-1412.
9. Bottomley, R. J., York, D. and Grieve, R. A. F. (1979) Possible source craters for the North American tektites: A geochronological investigation. Eos Trans. AGU 60, 309.
10. 39Ar dating of impact craters. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 20, 421-431.
11. 40Ar/39Ar method. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 24, 161.
12. Carrigy, M. A. (1968) Evidence of shock metamorphism in rocks from the Steen River structure, Alberta. In Shock Metamorphism in Natural Material, eds. B.M. French and M.N. Short, pp. 367-378. Mono Book Corporation, Baltimore, MD.
13. Clymer, A. K., Bice, D. M. and Montanari, A. (1996) Shocked quartz from the late Eocene : Impact evidence from Massignano, Italy. Geology 24, 483-486.
14. Deutsch, A., Buhll, D. and Langenhorst, F. (1992) On the significance of crater ages : new ages from Dellen (Sweden) and Araguainha (Brasil). Tectonophysics 216, 205-218.
15. Farinella, P., Gonczi, R., Froeschlé, Ch. and Froeschlé, C. (1993) The injection of asteroid fragments into resonances. Icarus 101, 174-187.
16. Farinella, P., Froeschlé, Ch., Froeschlé, C., Gonczi, R., Hahn, G., Morbidelli, A. and Valsecchi, G. B. (1994) Asteroids falling into the Sun. Nature 371, 314-317.
17. Gault, D. E. (1974) Impact cratering. In A Primer in Lunar Geology , eds. R. Greeley and P. H. Schultz, pp. 137-175. NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA.
18. Gorter, J. D., Gostin, V. A. and Plummer, P. S. (1989) The enigmatic sub-surface Tookoonooka complex in south-west Queensland : Its impact origin and implications for hydrocarbon accumulations. In The Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia, ed. B. J. O'Neil, pp. 441-456. Society of Petroleum Engineers, Adelaide.
19. Grieve, R. A. F. (1984) The impact cratering rate in recent time. J. Geophys. Res. 89, B403-B408.
20. Grieve, R. A. F. (1991) Terrestrial impact: the record in the rocks. Meteoritics 26, 174-194.
21. Grieve, R. A. F. and Pesonen, L. J. (1996) Earth Moon Planets 72, 357-376.
22. Grieve, R., Rupert, J., Smith, J. and Therriault, A. (1995) The record of terrestrial impact record. GSA Today 5, 189-196.
23. Grieve, R. A. F., Sharpton, V. L., Goodacre, A. K. and Garvin, J. B. (1985) A prospective on the evidence for periodic cometary impacts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 76, 1-9.
24. Grieve, R. A. F. and Shoemaker, E. M. (1994) The record of past impacts on Earth. In Hazards due to Comets and Asteroids, ed. T. Gehrels, pp. 417-462. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
25. Gurov, E. P. and Gurova, E. P. (1980) Shocked metamorphosed rocks from the El'gygytgyn meteorite crater in Chukchi National Okrug (in Russian). Meteoritika 39, 102-109.
26. Harland, B. W., Armstrong, R. L., Cox. A. V., Craig, L. E., Smith, A. G. and Smith, D. G. (1990) A Geologic Time Scale 1989, pp. 1-223. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
27. Hartung, J. B., Kunk, M. J. and Anderson, R. R. (1990) Global Catastrophes in Earth History, eds. V. L. Sharpton and P. D. Ward, Geol. Soc. Am., Spec. Pap. 247, pp. 207-222.
28. Hildebrand, A. R., Penrield, G. T., Kring, D. A., Pilkington, M., Camargo, Z. A., Jacobsen, S. B. and Boynton, W. V. (1991) Chicxulub crater: A possible Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary crater on the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico. Geology 19, 867-871.
29. Holsapple, K. A. (1993) The scaling of impact processes in planetary sciences. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 21, 333-373.
30. Hut, P., Alvarez, A., Elder, W. P., Hansen, T., Kaufman, E. G., Keller, G., Shoemaker, E. M. and Weissman, P. R. (1987) Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions. Nature 329, 118-126.
31. 39Ar age and its distal impact ejecta in the Pierre Shale in southwestern South Dakota. Science 262, 729-732.
32. Izett, G. A., Masaitis, V. L., Shoemaker, E. M., Dalrymple, G. B. and Steiner, M. B. (1994) Eocene age of the Kamensk buried crater of Russia. LPI Contr. 825, 55.
33. Jansa, L. F., Aubry, M. P. and Gradstein, F. M. (1990) Comets and extinctions ; Cause and effects? In Global Catastrophes in Earth History, eds. V. L. Sharpton and P. D. Ward, Geol. Soc. Am., Spec. Pap. 247, pp. 223-232.
34. 39Ar dating og the Haughton impact structure. Meteoritics 23, 233-234.
35. 39Ar age for the Lappajärvi impact Crater. Finland. J. Geophys. 48, 57-59.
36. Kilesev, N. P., Korotushenko, Yu. G. (1986) The Bigach astrobleme in eastern Kazakhstan. Meteoritika 45, 119-121 (in Russian).
37. Kirschner, C. E., Grantz, A. and Mullen, M. W. (1992) Impact origin of the Avak structure, Arctic Alaska and genesis of the Barrow gas fields. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 76, 651-678.
38. Koeberl, C., Poag, C. W., Reimold, W. U. and Brandt, D. (1996) Impact origin of the Chesapeake Bay structure and source of the North American tektites. Science 271, 1263-1266.
39. Koeberl, C., Armstrong, R. A. and Reimold, W. U. (1997) Morokweng, South Africa : A large impact structure of Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary age. Geology 8, 731-734.
40. Koeberl, C., Sharpton, V., Harrison, T. M., Sandwell, D., Murali, A. V. and Burke, K. (1990) The Kara/Ust-Kara twin structure ; A large-scale impact event in the late Cretaceous. In Global Catastrophes in Earth History, eds. V. L. Sharpton and P. D. Ward, Geol. Soc. Am., Spec. Pap. 247, pp. 233-238.
41. Koeberl, C. and Storzer, D. (1988) Chemical composition and fission track age of Zhamanshin crater glass. In Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Natural Glasses, Prague, pp. 203-205.
42. Kolesnikov, E. M., Nazarov, M. A., Badjukov, D. D. and Shukulov, Y. A. (1988) The Karsidy craters are the probable record of catastrophe at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. LPI Contr. 673, 99-100.
43. Langenhorst, F. (1996) Characteristics of shocked quartz in late Eocene impact ejecta from Massignano (Ancona, Italy): clues to shock conditions and source crater. Geology 24, 487-490.
44. Mak, E. K., York, D., Grieve, R. A. F. and Dence, M. R. (1976) The age of the Mistastin Lake crater. Labrador, Canada. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 31, 345-357.
45. Masaitis, V. L., Danilin, A. N., Mastchak, M. S., Raikhlin, A. I., Selivanovskaya, T. V. and Shadenkov, E. M. (1980) In Geology of Astroblems, pp. 1-231 (in Russian). Nedra Press, Moscow.
46. McHone, J. F. and Sorkhabi, R. B. (1994) Apatite fission track age of the Marquez Dome impact structure. Texas. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 25, 881.
47. Melosh, H. J. (1989) Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process, pp. 1-245. Clarendon Press, New York.
48. Menichella, M., Paolicchi, P. and Farinella, P. (1996) The main belt as a source of near-Earth asteroids. Earth Moon Planets 72, 133-149.
49. Michel, P., Farinella, P. and Froeschlé, Ch. (1996) The orbital evolution of the asteroid Eros and implications for collision with the Earth. Nature 380, 689-691.
50. 39Ar dating. Meteoritics 22, 281-289.
51. Montanari, A. (1991) Authigenesis of impact spheroids in the K/T boundary clay from Italy: new constraints for high-resolution stratigraphy of terminal Cretaceous events. J. Sediment. Petrol. 61, 315-339.
52. Montanari, A., Asaro, F., Kennett, J. P. and Michel, E. (1993) Iridium anomalies of Late Eocene age at Massignano (Italy) and in ODP Site 689B (Maud Rise, Antarctica). Palaios 8, 420-437.
53. Montanari, A., Deino, A., Drake, R., Turrin, B. D., De Faolo, D. J., Odin, S. G., Curtis, G. H., Alvarez, W. and Bice, D. M. (1988) Radioisotopic dating of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the pelagic sequence of the Northern Apennines. In The Eocene-Oligocene Boundary in the Marche-Umbria Basin (Italy), eds. I. Premoli Silva, R. Coccioni and A. Montanari, pp. 195-208. IUGS Spec. Publ., Aniballi Publ., Ancona.
54. Montanari, A., Deino, A., Coccioni, R., Langenheim, V. E., Capo, R. and Monechi, S. (1991) Geochronology, Sr isotope stratigraphy, magneto- stratigraphy and plankton stratigraphy across the Oligocene-Miocene boundary in the Contessa section (Gubbio, Italy). News Strat. 23, 151-180.
55. Montanari, A., Drake, R., Bice, M. D., Alvarez, W., Curtis, G. H., Turrin, B. D. and DePaolo, D. J. (1985) Radiometric time scale for the upper Eocene and Oligocene based on K/Ar and Rh/Sr dating of volcanic biotites from the pelagic sequence of Gubbio, Italy. Geology 13, 596-599.
56. Montanari, A., Hay, R. L., Alvarez, W., Asaro, F., Michel, H. V., Alvarez, L. W. and Smit, J. (1983) Spheroids at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary are altered impact droplets of basaltic composition. Geology 11, 668-671.
57. Nazarov, M. A., Kolesnikov, E. M., Badjukov, D. D. and Masaitis, V. L. (1989) Reconstruction of the original morphology of the Kara impact structure and its relevance to the K/T boundary event. Lunar Planet. Sci. 22, 959-960.
58. Nazarov, M. A., Badjukov, D. D., Barsukova, L. D. and Alekseev, A. S. (1991) Reconstruction of original morphology of the Kara impact structure and its relevance to the K/T boundary event. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 22, 959-960.
59. Oberli, F. and Meier, M. (1991) Age of Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the Marche-Umbria basin, Italy, by high resolution U-Th-Pb dating. Terra 3, 286.
60. Odin, G. S., Montanari, A. and Coccioni, R. (1997) Chronostratigraphy of Miocene stages : A proposal for the definition of precise boundaries. In Miocene Stratigraphy: An integrated approach, eds. A. Montanari, G. S. Odin and R. Coccioni. Developments in Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Vol. 15, pp. 597-629. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
61. Odin, G. S., Montanari, A., Deino, A., Drake, R., Guise, P., Kreuzer, H. and Rex, D. C. (1991) Reliability of volcanosedimentary biotite ages around the Eocene/Oligocene boundary. Chem. Geol. (Isotope Geosci.) 86, 203-224.
62. Pohl, J. (1987) Research in terrestrial impact structures : Introduction. In Research in Terrestrial Impact Structures, ed. J. Pohl, pp. 1-4. Vieweg, Wiesbaden.
63. Raup, D. M., Sepkoski, J. J. Jr. and (1986) Periodic extinctions of families and genera. Science 231, 833-836.
64. Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (1990) The taxonomic structure of periodic extinction. In Global Catastrophes in Earth History, eds. V. L. Sharpton and P. D. Ward, Geol. Soc. Am., Spec. Pap. 247, pp. 33-44.
65. Sharpton, V. L., et al. (1993) Chicxulub multi-ring impact basin : Size and other characteristics derived from gravity analyses. Science 261, 1564-1567.
66. Sharpton, V. L., Marin, L. E., Carney, J. L., Scott, L., Ryder, G., Schuraytz, B. C., Sikora, P. and Spudis, P. D. (1996) A model of the Chicxulub impact basin based on evaluation of geophysical data, well logs and drill core samples. In The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and other Catastrophes in Earth History, eds. G. Ryder and D. Fastovsky, Geol. Soc. of Am. Spec. Publ. 307, pp. 55-74.
67. 39Ar ages of rocks and glasses from the Nördlinger Ries crater and the temperature history of impact breccias. J. Geophys. 51, 1-11.
68. Stothers, R. B. and Rampino, M. R. (1990) Periodicity in flood basalts, mass extinctions and impacts : A statistical view and a model. In Global Catastrophes in Earth History, eds. V. L. Sharpton and P. D. Ward, GSA Special Paper 247, pp. 9-19.
69. 39Ar ages of 65 Ma. Science 257, 954-958.
70. 40An39Ar ages of the large impact structures Kara and Manicougan and their rela-tive relevance to the Cretaceous-Tertiary and the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Meteoritics 27, 299-300.
71. Vishnevsky, S. A. and Lagutenko, V. N. (1986) The Ragozinka astrobleme : An Eocene crater in the central Urals. Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 14, 1-42 (in Russian).
72. 39Ar thermochronology of shocked feldspars from the Manson impact structure. In Global Catastrophes in Earth History, eds. V. L. Sharpton and P. D. Ward, Geol. Soc. Am., Spec. Pap. 247, pp. 283-296.