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Chaos and Catastrophe

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Imagine that some 2 020 Ma (million years) ago an enormous block of rock (an asteroid), or of ice and some rocky material (a comet) slammed into the crust of the Earth.

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  1. Inst. Mineralogie und Petrographie, Museum Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115, Berlin, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Wolf Uwe Reimold

  2. Dept. Geology, University of Witwatersrand, Wits, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa

    Prof. Dr. Roger L. Gibson

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Reimold, W.U., Gibson, R.L. (2010). Chaos and Catastrophe. In: Meteorite Impact!., vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10464-0_2

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