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 AutoCAD R12 Solid-object model of an oblique impact on Earth (515KB)
3D Geometry of Overlapped, Far-Field Impact Strains  AutoCAD R12 Solid-object model of an oblique impact on Earth (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
Index image for PDF filesNeotectonics 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 Hyakutake1995 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