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Impacts and the Early Evolution of Life

Authors : Kevin Zahnle, Norman H. Sleep

Published in: Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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The K/T event shows that, even today, biospheric cratering is an important process. Impacts were much larger and more frequent on the early Earth. In all likelihood impacts posed the greatest challenge to the survival of early life.

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Metadata
Title
Impacts and the Early Evolution of Life
Authors
Kevin Zahnle
Norman H. Sleep
Copyright Year
2006
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

Print ISBN: 978-3-540-33086-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-540-33088-2

Copyright Year: 2006

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33088-7_7