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Meteorite Impact!: The Danger from Space and South Africa's Mega-Impact The Vredefort Structure (Geoparks of the World (1)) by Wolf Uwe Reimold and Roger L. Gibson; with a chapter by Anton Pelser, Mauritz Naudé and Kevin Balkwill is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The impact of large extraterrestrial bolides (asteroids and comets) with Earth is an ever-present danger that humanity has only recently begun to recognise. Of the 175 impact craters found thus far on Earth, three giants stand out – Chicxulub in Mexico, Sudbury in Canada, and the Vredefort Impact Structure in South Africa. Each of these impact events catastrophically altered the global environment and was strong enough to drastically change life on our planet. The Vredefort Structure is the oldest and largest of these three giants and at about 300 km diameter it is nearly twice the size of the Chicxulub crater that was formed by an impact that wiped out approximately 75% of all known life on Earth 65 million years ago. In the more than 2000 million years since its formation, water, wind and ice have slowly eroded away the original Vredefort crater, exposing its roots in a series of spectacular rocks. The outcroppings in the region around the towns of Vredefort and Parys, known as the Vredefort Dome, show the scars of the cataclysmic forces that accompanied the impact event. The rocks, ripped from the depths of the crust by the impact, also tell a far older story that stretches back

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Author

Wolf Uwe Reimold and Roger L. Gibson; with a chapter by Anton Pelser, Mauritz Naudé and Kevin Balkwill

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642104640

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Anthropology