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Impact-driven Environments

Impact-Driven Environments is a planetary environmental regime characterized by extreme and transient physical and chemical conditions generated predominantly by high-energy bolide impacts during the early stages of Earth’s history.

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174

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2017–2026

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Publications

54

Young chondrules in CB chondrites from a giant impact in the early Solar System

Alexander N. Krot, Yuri Amelin, P. Cassen et al. · Nature · 2005 · 330 citations

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A case for a comet impact trigger for the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum and carbon isotope excursion

Dennis V. Kent, Benjamin S. Cramer, Luca Lanci et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2003 · 204 citations · Full text

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Spherule Beds 3.47–3.24 Billion Years Old in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: A Record of Large Meteorite Impacts and Their Influence on Early Crustal and Biological Evolution

Donald R. Lowe, Gary R. Byerly, Frank T. Kyte et al. · Astrobiology · 2003 · 191 citations

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The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of Life

G. R. Osinski, Charles S. Cockell, A. Pontefract et al. · Astrobiology · 2020 · 179 citations · Full text

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Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago

J. H. Wittke, James C. Weaver, T. E. Bunch et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 146 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. GR
    G. R. Osinski

    Western University, Canada

    7 publications · 480 citations

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  2. CS
    Charles S. Cockell

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 438 citations

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  3. CK
    Christian Koeberl

    University of Vienna, Austria

    4 publications · 177 citations

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  4. TE
    T. E. Bunch

    Ames Research Center, United States

    3 publications · 430 citations

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  5. AP
    A. Pontefract

    Western University, Canada

    3 publications · 206 citations

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Institutions

174

  1. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    418 citations

  2. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    229 citations

  3. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    320 citations

  4. Ames Research Center

    Mountain View, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    520 citations

  5. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

    Mountain View, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    648 citations

  6. Tohoku University

    Sendai, Japan

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    370 citations

  7. Czech Academy of Sciences

    Prague, Czechia

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    483 citations

  8. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology

    Prague, Czechia

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    483 citations

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Venues

  1. Astrobiology

    6 publications · 556 citations

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  2. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

    5 publications · 200 citations

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  3. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    5 publications · 287 citations

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  4. Meteoritics and Planetary Science

    4 publications · 219 citations

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 3 publications · 120 citations

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