Welcome to a site
organized to help study
tectonic effects from
hypervelocity bolide
impacts on
terrestrial
planets.
* Data
* Books
* Photos
* Images
* Articles
* Abstracts
* Animation
Impact Tectonic Essay
(coming soon)
Earth
images and maps
3D
Geometry of an Oblique
Impact
(515KB)
3D Geometry
of Overlapped, Far-Field Impact Strains
(18.5 MB) 3/05/2008
Geophysical
Earth in Geographic Space
with
Google Earth KMZ file 11/07/2007
Excel
Worksheet with Magnetic Polarity Timescale and Impact Crater Diameter
(93KB)
2/22/2008
Plate-splitting
impact in the Congo Basin; bedrock geology, plate motions, and diamonds.
04/20/2007
North
American Plate, Mid-Atlantic inversion and the Chesapeake Invader.
with
Google Earth KMZ file
10/31/2007
World
Continental Geology by Era and Grayshade Sea-Floor
Physiography with
Google Earth KMZ and KML files 11/07/2007
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Neotectonics of the North and Central America
and West Central Atlantic
Regions with
Google Earth KMZ file
11/07/2007
Far-Field
Strains and GPS Crustal Motion in Relation to 2 Known, and 3 Suspected
Impacts with Google Earth KMZ file
2/10/2008
* This Dynamic
Planet (US Geological Survey Map I-2800, 3rd
edition)
*
Cosmic Earth Impacts History Page
(Lunar and Planetary Institute)
*
Holocene_Impact_Working_Group
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
*
Terrestrial
Impact Crater Slide Set (Lunar and Planetary
Institute)
*
Chicxulub and the Gulf of Mexico
(Miami University of Ohio)
* Impact Field
Studies Group
(http://eps.utk.edu/ifsg.htm)
*
Earth-Meteor
Impact Crater Maps
(geology.com)
*
The Chicxulub Debate
(Princeton University)
*
MantlePlumes.org
(http://mantlepumes.org/)
Moon
southern hemisphere mage
*
Clementine
Moon Maps (Arizona State Univesity )
*
LPOD lunar photo of
the day (http://www.lpod.org)
*
Clementine Moon Navigator
(NASA JPL Planetary Image Atlas)
Mars
photos, images and
maps
* Exploration
Missions
(NASA)
*
Rediscovering
Mars (Physics Today on the
Web)
*
Roving
Mouse Mars Atlas
(http://www.roving-mouse.com/planetary/Mars/Atlas/)
Oblique Impact Complex Including Syria Planum and
Sinai Planum
10/30/2007
*
Global
Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery
(Marlin
Space Science Systems )
* MOLA imaging
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Scientific Visualization Studio
*
Mars
Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Science Investigation
(NASA, Mars Global
Surveyort)
*
Southern Hemisphere Rotation in True Color from Viking
(NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center)
Mercury
hemisphere composite image
*
Messenger
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
(NASA)
*
Mercury Thrust Scarps and Impacts
(Lunar & Planetrary Instute)
*
Mercury
Facts & Pictures
(www.planetery.org)
Jupiter
*
Jupiter
SL9 Impact (www.seds.org)
*
Impact Site Evolution
(www.seds.org)
*
Charted
Magnetic Activity
(www.seds.org)
*
Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 (1993e) (www.seds.org)
*
Visual
and Ultraviolet Images of Impact Sites
(www.seds.org)
* 1994 Comet
Shoemaker-Levy (SL9) Collision (Lunar &
Planetrary Instute)
Links:
[
Nineplanets.org:
Asteroids
>
EROS 433 Near
Earth Asteroid
]
[
European Space Agency (ESA) Multimedia Gallery
*
First International Conference of Impact
Cratering]
[
USGS
Astrogeology:
Planetary Photojournal > SmallBodies > Ateroids and
Comets * Map a
Planet.com]
[
www.seds.org
Hubble Telescope Imagery:
1997 Comet Hale
Bop * 1996
Comet Hyakutake
* 1995
Rotation of the Asteroid
Vesta]
[
National
Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA):
Catalog of
Spaceborne Imaging *
Solar System
Exploration *
Goddard
Space Flight Center
Home]
[
Lunar
& Planetary Institute (LPI):
Evolution
of our Solar System *
Europa Impacts *
Current
and Deep Space Missions *
Imaging
Node of the Planetary Data
System]
*
Astrophotography by Tom Matheson
*
GeoScienceWorld.org
*
The Plantary Society
*
Impact
Cratering: An overview of Mineralogical and Geocemical Aspects by
Christian Koeberl *
The Lately Tortured Earth by Alfred
deGrazia *
Near-Earth
Objects *
MSNBC
Cosmiclog *
Meteorites
from Earth: The Tale of Tektites By Richard Jakiel
*
MIT Crosby Lectures in Geology: History of Africa, Fall
2005 (MIT OpenCourseWare)
*
Dave
Weir's Meteorite Studies *
Appalachian
Tectonic Study Group *
Shock
Dynamics *
Super
Huge Impact Tectonogenesis
* About the Site
G.C. Herman web page
gcherman@impacttectonics.org
June 29,
2008
Photo: Solarized Venus and the
Sun from behind the Moon