Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth 1-1-001-325-4330-325 Product Code: SPE461 (Special Paper

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provide a microcosm of intracontinental mountain building at a large scale

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and two global compilations: rifts and large mafic magmatic events through time

Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth 1-1-001-325-4330-325 Product Code: SPE461 (Special PaperEditors: Leon T. Silver and Peter H. Schultz What has been the history of the impacts of large asteroids and comets on Earth during the past 3. 5 b. y.? What have been the physical, chemical, and biological consequences of these impacts? Have they produced major perturbations of the important indigenous physical and biological trends of terrestrial evolution? What are the current probabilities of such impacts? Forty eight chapters provide a