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KOEBERL, C. & HENKEL, H. (eds) 2005. Impact Tectonics.

Impact Studies Series. xix + 552 pp. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. Price Euros 129.95 (+ VAT at local rate), SFr 220, £100, US $169 (hard covers). ISBN 3 540 24181 7.

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Impact Tectonics is the latest in a series resulting from the European Science Foundation’s programme ‘The Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes’ and, like its predecessors, the result of papers presented at an international workshop. This book presents a wide-ranging view of some of the latest research into impacts and some useful reviews. The coverage of many of the various topics represents progress on a variety of individual research projects, rather than an attempt to produce a comprehensive guide to impact-related tectonics. The international author list includes most of the current key players in impact-related studies and the quality of the individual contributions is correspondingly high. These are grouped into four major areas: general aspects, structural and tectonic aspects, numerical and experimental methods and finally one paper on economic aspects.

The first section, General Aspects, deals with three of the characteristic products of impacts: pseudotachylites, shatter cones and impact-induced dykes. An in-depth discussion (Reimold & Gibson) of the correct definition and terminology for rocks formed by frictional melting (‘pseudotachyllites’) provides a welcome contribution to the clarification of the characterization of these materials. It also illustrates the problems of definition and of realizing a generally applicable consensus when the evidence is so heavily dependent upon research on a single impact structure – Vredefort in South Africa. The formation . . . [Full Text of this Article]