Impact disruption and recovery of the deep subsurface biosphere

Astrobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 231-246

  Cockell, Charles S ^a,g   Voytek, Mary A ^b   Gronstal, Aaron L ^a   Finster, Kai ^c   Kirshtein, Julie D ^b   Howard, Kieren ^d,h   Reitner, Joachim ^e   Gohn, Gregory S ^b   Sanford, Ward E ^b   Horton, J Wright ^b   Kallmeyer, Jens ^f   Kelly, Laura ^a   Powars, David S ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Geobiology; Impacts; Subsurface biosphere; Subterranean environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859383021     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2011.0722     Document Type: Article

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