Późno dewońskie impakty

• Authors: Tomasz Brachaniec , Krzysztof Brom

Title variants

EN

Late Devonian impacts

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In 1970 the first hypothesis, which claimed that large meteorite landed in ocean at Frasnian/Famennian boundary and caused mass extinction was proposed. In Late Devonian deposits there are many potential impact evidences. Nonetheless, many years of searching for iridium anomaly, shocked minerals, microtektites and craters in the F/F boundary passage deposits have failed. The most probably crater, which could be connected with F/F boundary is Siljan Ring in Sweden.

Keywords

EN

Frasnian-Famennian boundary; Late Devonian; Siljan crater; mass extinction

Discipline

• GEOPHYSICS: GEOPHYSICS

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Meteorytowe
• Journal: Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 34-37

Contributors

author

Tomasz Brachaniec

• Uniwersytet Śląski, Wydział Nauk o Ziemi

author

Krzysztof Brom

• Uniwersytet Śląski, Wydział Nauk o Ziemi

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• Document Type: article