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Session 2 References

Session 3 References

Session 4 References

Session 5 References

Chapman, C. R., and D. Morrison. Cosmic Catastrophes. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1989, p. 302. ISBN: 9780306431630.

French, B. M. Traces of Catastrophe. Houston, TX: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1998, p. 120. (LPI Contribution No. 954.)

Gehrels, T., ed. Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1994, p. 1300. ISBN: 9780816515059.

Grieve, R. A. F. "Impact Cratering on the Earth." Scientific American 262 (1990): 66-73.

Hildebrand, A. R. "The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary Impact (or the Dinosaurs Didn't Have a Chance)." Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 87 (1993): 77-118.

Kelley, S. "The Geochronology of Large Igneous Provinces, Terrestrial Impact Craters, and Their Relationship to Mass Extinctions on Earth." Journal of the Geological Society, London 164 (2007): 923-936.

Melosh, H. J. Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780195042849.

Pilkington, M. and R. A. F. Grieve. "The Geophysical Signature of Terrestrial Impact Craters." Reviews of Geophysics 30 (May 1992): 161-181.

Roth, E., B. Poty, and M-T. Menager, eds. Nuclear Methods of Dating. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1989, p. 600. ISBN: 9780792301882.

Abramov, O., and D. A. Kring. "Numerical Modeling of Impact-induced Hydrothermal Activity at the Chicxulub Crater." Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42 (2007): 93-112.

Alegret, L., I. Arenillas, J. A. Arz, C. Di'az, J. M. Grajales-Nishimura, A. Mele'ndez, E. Molina, R. Rojas, and A. R. Soria. "Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Deposits at Loma Capiro, Central Cuba: Evidence for the Chicxulub Impact." Geology 33, no. 9 (September 2005): 721-724.

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Dressler, B. O., R. A. F. Grieve, and V. L. Sharpton, eds. Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution. Geological Society of America Special Paper 293, 1994, p. 348. ISBN: 9780813722931.

French, B. M., and N. M. Short, eds. Shock Metamorphism of Natural Materials. Baltimore, MD: Mono Book Corp., 1968, p. 644.

Grajales-Nishimura, J. M., E. Cedillo-Pardo, C. Rosales-Domínguez, D. J. Morán-Zenteno, W. Alvarez, P. Claeys, J. Ruíz-Morales, P. Padilla-Avila, A. Sánchez-Ríos. "Chicxulub Impact: The Origin of Reservoir and Seal Facies in the Southeastern Mexico Oil Fields." Geology 28, no. 4 (April 2000): 307-310.

Grieve, R. A. F. "Terrestrial Impact Structures." Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 15 (1987): 245-270.

Hildebrand, A. R., and G. T. Penfield. "A Buried 180-km Diameter Probable Impact Crater on the Yucatan Peninsula." Mexico, Eos 71 (1990): 1424-1425.

Kring, D. A. "The Dimensions of the Chicxulub Impact Crater and Impact Melt Sheet." Journal of Geophysical Research 100, no. E8 (August 1995): 16 and 979-986.

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Melosh, H. J. Impact Cratering: A Geological Process. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 245. ISBN: 9780195042849.

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Morgan, J., and M. Warner. "Chicxulub: The Third Dimension of a Multi-ring Impact Basin." Geology 27, no. 5 (May 1999): 407-410.

Morgan, J., G. Christeson, S. Gulick, Grieve Richard, J. Urrutia, P. Barton, M. Rebolledo, and J. Melosh. "Joint IODP/ICDP Scientific Drilling of the Chicxulub Impact Crater." Scientific Drilling, no. 4 (March 2007): 42-44.

Perry, E., Luis Marin, J. McClain, and G. Vela'zquez. "Ring of Cenotes (Sinkholes), Northwest Yucatan, Mexico: Its Hydrogeologic Characteristics and Possible Association with the Chicxulub Impact Crater." Geology 23, no. 1 (January 1995): 17-20.

Pope, K. O., E. Rejmankova, and J. F. Paris. "Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) Observations of Groundwater Discharge and Wetlands Associated with the Chicxulub Impact Crater, Northwestern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico." GSA Bulletin 113, no. 3 (March 2001): 403-416.

Pope, K. O., A. C. Ocampo, A. G. Fischer, W. Walter Alvarez, B. W. Fouke, C. L. Webster, F. J. Vega, J. Smit, E. A. Fritsche, and P. Claeys. "Chicxulub Impact Ejecta from Albion Island, Belize." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 170, no. 4 (July 1999): 351-364.

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Sharpton, V. L., and P. D. Ward, eds. Global Catastrophes in Earth History: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Impacts, Volcanism, and Mass Mortality. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 1991, pp. 247 and 631. ISBN: 9780813722474.

Sharpton, V. L., G. B. Dalrymple, L. E. Marín, G. Ryder, B. C. Schuraytz, and J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi. "New Links between the Chicxulub Impact Structure and the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary." Nature 359 (1992): 819-821.

Tagle, R., J. Erzinger, L. Hecht, R. T. Schmitt, D. Stoffler, and P. Claeys. "Platinum Group Elements in Impactites of the ICDP Chicxulub Drill Core Yaxcopoil-1: Are There Traces of the Projectile?" Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 6 (2004): 1009-1016.

Tuchscherer, M. G., W. U. Reimold, R. L. Gibson, and C. Koeberl. "Petrographic Observations and Classification: Impactites from the Yaxcopoil-1 Borehole, Chicxulub Impact Structure, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico." Lunar and Planetary Science (2003).

———. "Geochemical Characteristics of Impactites from the Yaxcopoil-1 ICDP Drip Core, Chicxulub Impact Structure, Mexico." Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV (2004).

Sharpton V. L., K. Burke, A. Camargo-Zanoguera, S. A. Hall, D. S. Lee, L. E. Marín, G. Suáarez-Reynoso, J. M. Quezada-Muñeton, P. D. Spudis, and J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi. "Chicxulub Multiring Impact Basin: Size and Other Characteristics Derived from Gravity Analysis." Science 261 (1993): 1564-1567.

Sharpton, V. L. "Chicxulub Impact Crater Provides Clues to Earth's History." Earth in Space 8, no. 4 (December 1995): 7.

Silver, L. T., and P. H. Schultz, eds. "Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth: An Intimate History." Geological Society of America Special Paper 190, 1982, p. 128. ISBN: 9780375706202.

Vermeesch, P. M., and J. V. Morgan. "Chicxulub Central Crater Structure: Initial Results from Physical Property Measurements and Combined Velocity and Gravity Modeling." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 7 (July 2004): 1019-1034.

Wittmann, A., T. Kenkmann, L. Hecht, and D. Stöffler. "Reconstruction of the Chicxulub Ejecta Plume from its Deposits in Drill Core Yaxcopoil-1." GSA Bulletin 119, no. 9/10 (September/October 2007): 1151-1167.

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Dypvik, H., S. T. Gudlaugsson, F. Tsikalas, M. Attrep, Jr., R. E. Ferrell, Jr., D. H. Krinsley, A. Mørk, J. I. Faleide, and J. Nagy. "Mjølnir Structure: An Impact Crater in the Barents Sea." Geology 24, no. 9 (September 1996): 779-782.

Dypvik, H., and M. Moses Attrep. "Geochemical Signals of the Late Jurassic, Marine Mjolnir Impact." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34, no. 3 (May 1999): 393-406.

Dypvik, H., R. E. Ferrell, and P. T. Sandbakken. "The Clay Mineralogy of Sediments Related to the Marine Mjolnir Impact Crater." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38, no. 10 (October 2003): 1437-1450.

Dypvik, H., P. T. Sandbakken, G. Postma, and A. Atle Mork. "Early Post-impact Sedimentation Around the Central High of the Mjolnir Impact Crater (Barents Sea, Late Jurassic)." Sedimentary Geology 168, no. 3/4 (June 2004): 227-247.

Dypvik, H., M. Smelror, P. T. Sandbakken, E. Salvigsen, and E. Kalleson. "Traces of the Marine Mjølnir Impact Event." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 241 (2006): 621-636.

Gudlaugsson, S. T., "Large Impact Crater in the Barents Sea." Geology 21 (April 1993): 291-294.

Ormo, J., and M. Lindstrom. "When a Cosmic Impact Strikes the Sea Bed." Geol Mag 137, no. 1 (2000): 67-80.

Shuvalov, V., and H. Dypvik. "Ejecta Formation and Crater Development of the Mjolnir Impact." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 3 (March 2004): 467-479.

Tsikalas, F., S. T. Gudlaugsson, and J. I. Faleide. "Collapse, Infilling, and Post-impact Deformation at the Mjølnir Impact Structure, Barents Sea." Geological Society of America Bulletin 110 (1998): 537-552.

Tsikalas, F., S. T. Gudlaugsson, O. Eldholm, and J. I. Faleide. "1998, Integrated Geophysical Analysis Supporting the Impact Origin of the Mjølnir Structure, Barents Sea." Tectonophysics 289 (1998): 257-280.

Tsikalas, F. "Mjolnir Crater as a Result of Oblique Impact: Asymmetry Evidence Constrains Impact Direction and Angle" In Impact Tectonics, Impact Studies. Edited by C. Koeberl and H. Herbert. Springer Verlag, Berlin, p. 285-306, 2005. ISBN: 9783540241817.

Ames, D. E., D. H. Watkinson, and R. R. Parrish. "Dating of a Regional Hydrothermal System Induced by the 1850 Ma Sudbury Impact Event." Geology 26, no. 5 (May 1998): 447-450.

Dutch, S. I. "Significance of Back-to-Back Facing Directions along the South Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex." Ontario, Geological Society of America National Meeting, Boston, MA, November 7, 2001.

French, B. M., and N. M. Short, eds. "Sudbury Structure, Ontario: Some Petrographic Evidence For an Origin by Meteorite Impact." In Shock Metamorphism of Natural Materials, Proceedings of the First Conference Held at NASA, Goddard Flight Center, Maryland, 1966. Baltimore, MD: Mono Book Corp., 1968, pp. 383-412. (Library of Congress Catalog No. 68-59422.)

Mungall, J. E., D. E. Ames, and J. J. Hanley. "Geochemical Evidence from the Sudbury Structure for Crustal Redistribution by Large Bolide Impacts." Nature 429 (3 June 2004): 546-548.

Naldrett, A. J. "From Impact to Riches: Evolution of Geological Understanding as Seen at Sudbury, Canada." GSA Today 13, no. 2 (February 2003): 4-9.

Pope, K. O., S. W. Kieffer, and D. E. Ames. "Empirical and Theoretical Comparisons of the Chicxulub and Sudbury Impact Structures." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 1 (January 2004): 97-116.

Zieg, M. J., and B. D. Marsh. "The Sudbury Igneous Complex: Viscous Emulsion Differentiation of a Superheated Impact Melt Sheet." GSA Bulletin 117, no. 11/12 (November/December 2005): 1427-1450.

Grieve, R., and A. Ann Therriault. "Vredefort, Sudbury, Chicxulub; Three of a Kind?" Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 28 (2000): 305-338.

McCarthy, T. S., I. G. Stanistreet, and L. J. Robb. "Geological Studies Related to the Origin of the Witwatersrand Basin and Its Mineralization: An Introduction and a Strategy for Research and Exploration." S Afr J of Geol 93 (1990): 1-4.

Moser, D. "Dating the Shock Wave and Thermal Imprint of the Giant Vredefort Impact, South Africa." Geology 25, no. 1 (January 1997): 7-10.

Muundjua, M., R. J. Hart, S. A. Gilder, L. Carporzen, and A. Galdeano. "Magnetic Imaging of the Vredefort Impact Crater, South Africa." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 261 (2007) 456-468.

Spray, J. G., S. P. Kelley, and W. U. Reimold. "Laser Probe Argon-40/Argon-39 Dating of Coesite- and Stishovite-bearing Pseudotachylytes and the Age of the Vredefort Impact Event." Meteoritics 30 (1995): 335-343.

Therriault, A. M., R. A. F. Grieve, and W. U. Reimold. "Original Size of the Vredefort Structure: Implications for the Geological Evolution of the Witwatersrand Basin." Meteoritics Planet Sci 32 (1997): 71-77.

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Anderson, C. E., Jr. "An Overview of the Theory of Hydrocodes." International Journal of Impact Engineering 5 (1987): 33-59.

Collins, G. S., H. J. Melosh, and Robert A. Marcus. "Earth Impact Effects Program: A Web-based Computer Program for Calculating the Regional Environmental Consequences of a Meteoroid Impact on Earth." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40, no. 6 (2005): 817-840.

Dean, J. R. Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2005. ASIN: B000PY4IMM.

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Deutsch, A. "Isotope Systematics Support the Impact Origin of the Sudbury Structure (Ontario, Canada)." Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution, GSA Special Paper, 1994, pp. 293, and 348. ISBN 9780966586930.

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Grieve, R. A. F., and M. J. Cintala. "An Analysis of Differential Impact Melt-crater Scaling and Implications for the Terrestrial Impact Record." Meteoritics 27 (1992): 526-538.

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Session 4 References

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