French B.M. Traces of Catastrophe. A Handbook of Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures

Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1998. — 130 p.
Meteorite impacts are getting plenty of respect these days. The public regards them as
the established destroyer of dinosaurs and as the possible destroyer of civilization. The large
planetary science community sees impacts as the process that helped form the solar system
and is still modifying planets more than 4 b.y. later. Increasing numbers of geoscientists are
coming to appreciate the importance of meteorite impact events and the extent of their
influence on the geological and biological history of Earth.