Impacts and the Early Earth: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop of the European Science Foundation Scientific Program on the Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes

Only 10% of the 150 or so known impact craters on Earth date from the early Precambrian Era, a time period covering some 88% of the Earth's history. Yet this Era encompasses fundamental events in the origin and evolution of our planet from the origin of life itself to the development of continents. The papers in this volume were presented at a workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation Scientific Network on Impact cratering held in Cambridge, UK, in December 1998. The papers outline the present state of scientific understanding of the role impacts may have played in the biological and geological evolution of the Early Earth.Gilmour, Iain is the author of 'Impacts and the Early Earth: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop of the European Science Foundation Scientific Program on the Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes', published 2000 under ISBN 9783540670926 and ISBN 3540670920.