Stephen P. Broker
This list contains monographs and journal references important for development of the unit. The list reflects a bias toward articles from the journals
Nature
,
Science
,
American Scientist
,
Scientific American
, and
Earth
, as I have subscriptions to each of these. A more thorough search of the literature on the topics covered in the unit would draw on articles from such astronomy journals as
Earth Planet
.
Sci
.
Lett
.,
Icarus
,
Meteorics
, and
Proc
.
Lunar Planet
.
Sci
.
Alvarez, L.W. 1983. Experimental evidence that an asteroid impact led to the extinction of many species 65 million years ago.
Pro
.
Nat
.
Acad
.
Sci
.
USA
,
80
: 627-642.
———,
et al
. 1980. Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
Science
,
208
: 1095-1108.
Ash, R.D.,
et al
. 1996 (7 March). A 4-Gyr shock age for a martian meteorite and implications for the cratering history of Mars.
Nature
,
380
(6569): 57-59. Assigns a shock age of 4.0 billion years to the martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001. The meteorite was blown off Mars’ southern hemisphere during the Lunar Cataclysm.
Benton, M.J. 1995 (7 April). Diversification and extinction in the history of life.
Science
,
268
(5207): 52-58. Excellent overview of diversification and mass extinction of life since the Precambrian.
Blum, Joel D.,
et al
. 1993 (22 July). Isotopic comparison of K/T boundary impact glass with melt rock from the Chicxulub and Manson impact structures.
Nature
,
364
(6435): 325-327. Isotopic and geochemical evidence that Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan is the source crater for the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction.
Broker, Stephen P. 1984. Rudy Zallinger’s reptiles.
Discovery
,
17
(2): 18-24. The famous “Age of Reptiles” mural continues to capture the imagination. Its many marvelous scenes invite close study . . . again and again. Contains the 1st published photographs of details of Peabody Museum Great Hall “Age of Reptiles” mural.
Casanova, Ignacio, Thomas Graf, and Kurt Marti. 1995 (28 April). Discovery of an unmelted H-chondrite inclusion in an iron meteorite.
Science
,
268
(5210): 540-542. Ordinary chondrites and “the diversity and evolution of asteroidal parent bodies.”
Chapman, Clark R., and David Morrison. 1994 (6 January). Impacts on the earth by asteroids and comets: assessing the hazard.
Nature
,
367
(6458): 33-40. How likely is it that an asteroid or comet is going to vaporize us? Well, if you really want to know . . .
Coe, Michael D. 1993.
The Maya
(Fifth Edition). New York: Thames and Hudson, 224pp. References to Mayan astronomy and cosmology.
Dodd, Robert T. 1981.
Meteorites
:
a petrologic-chemical synthesis
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 368pp. Chondrites & irons. Erwin, Douglas H. 1994 (20 January). The Permo-Triassic extinction.
Nature
,
367
(6460): 231-236. Marine and continental extinctions: drawings of ancient marine invertebrates, Mae West diagrams.
Gehrels, Tom, ed. 1994.
Hazards due to comets and asteroids
. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1300pp. Near-Earth Objects, Earth-crossing asteroids and comets, Earth impacts, mass extinctions, Chicxulub impact, impact hazards, defending Earth.
———. 1979.
Asteroids
. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1181pp. Essential reference on asteroids.
Gladman, Brett J.,
et al
. 1996 (8 March). The exchange of impact ejecta between terrestrial planets.
Science
,
271
(5254): 1387-1392. There’s a pile of stuff flying around through the Solar System; the aptly named panspermia theory has some real merit.
Harvey, Ralph P., and Harry Y. McSween, Jr. 1996 (4 July). A possible high-temperature origin for the carbonates in the martian meteorite ALH84001.
Nature
,
382
(6586): 49-51. Published one month before announcement that martian meteorite ALH84001 has evidence of ancient extraterrestrial life.
Hildebrand, A.R.,
et al
. 1995 (3 August). Size and structure of the Chicxulub crater revealed by horizontal gravity gradients and cenotes.
Nature
,
376
(6539): 415-417. Gravity anomaly and cenote evidence for the crater.
Hill, David K. 1995 (16 June). Gathering airs schemes for averting asteroid doom.
Science
,
268
(5217): 1562-1563. It’s O.K. to swat at doomsday asteroids. Looked over your shoulder lately?
Hunten, Donald M. 1993 (12 February). Atmospheric evolution of the terrestrial planets.
Science
,
259
(5097): 915-920. “Much of Mars’ atmosphere may have been eroded in impacts by large meteoroids early in solar-system history.” Read the article; it’s a gas!
Jablonski, David, and David M. Raup. 1995 (21 April). Selectivity of end-Cretaceous marine bivalve extinctions.
Science
,
268
(5209): 389-391. No selective patterns of bivalve survival for habitat and feeding mean mass extinctions disrupt normal evolutionary patterns.
Kerridge, John F., and Mildred Shapley Matthews, eds. 1988.
Meteorites and the early Solar System
. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1269pp. A major work on meteorites.
Koeberl, Christian,
et al
. 1996 (1 March). Impact origin of the Chesapeake Bay structure and the source of the North American tektites.
Science
,
271
(5253): 1263-1266. Seismic, drill core, and gravity analysis of 35.5 M year old Chesapeake impact structure.
Kowal, Charles T. 1988.
Asteroids
:
their nature and utilization
. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 152pp. Good overview on asteroids. See Appendix A. Asteroids and the amateur astronomer.
Krogh, Thomas E.,
et al
. 1993 (23/30 December). U-Pb ages of single shocked zircons linking distal K/T ejecta to the Chicxulub crater.
Nature
,
366
(6457): 731-734. Ejecta shot out ballistically from Chicxulub crater wound up in Haiti and Colorado. U-235 and U-238 radioisotopic dating of shocked zircons provides the evidence.
McCall, G.J.H., ed. 1977.
Meteorite craters
. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 364pp. Benchmark Papers in Geology Series. Useful collection of original papers.
Mustard, John F., and Jessica M. Sunshine. 1995 (17 March). Seeing through the dust: martian crustal heterogeneity and links to the SNC meteorites.
Science
,
267
(5204): 1623-1626. Geochemical analyses of Mars rocks from Viking lander and the SNC meteorites found on Earth. ALH84001 is not mentioned in the study.
Nature
. 1995 (3 March). Special Issue, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Nature
,
267
(5202): 1277-1323. Nine technical articles on the collision of Comet S-L 9 with Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Raup, David M. 1992. Large-body impact and extinction in the Phanerozoic.
Paleobiology
,
18
: 80-88.
———. 1991.
Extinction
:
bad genes or bad luck?
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 210pp. “theories, assumptions, and difficulties associated with the science of species extinction.”
Robin, E.,
et al
. 1993 (17 June). Evidence for a K/T impact event in the Pacific Ocean.
Nature
,
363
(6430): 615-617. “Meteoric ablation debris” from deep sea cores; 2 km asteroid hit the Pacific Ocean; K-T extinctions due to “multiple accretionary events.”
Rosen, Robert. 1991.
Life itself
:
a comprehensive inquiry into the nature
,
origin
,
and fabrication of life
. New York: Columbia University Press, (Complexity in Ecological Systems Series), 285pp. What is life? Read in context of suggested ancient life on Mars.
Schuraytz, Benjamin C.,
et al
. 1996 (15 March). Iridium metal in Chicxulub impact melt: forensic chemistry on the K-T smoking gun.
Science
,
271
(5255): 1573-1576. Not so much a smoking gun as a piece of the bullet.
Sharpton, Virgil L.,
et al
. 1993 (17 September). Chicxulub multiring impact basin: size and other characteristics derived from gravity analysis.
Science
,
261
(5128): 1564-1567. The crater is 300 km in diameter. (Others say no.)
Shu, Frank H.,
et al
. 1996 (15 March). Toward an astrophysical theory of chondrites.
Science
,
271
(5255): 1545-1552. Chondrites and the age of the Solar System.
Smoliar, Michael I.,
et al
. 1996 (23 February). Re-Os ages of Group IIA, IIIA, IVA, and IVB iron meteorites.
Science
,
271
(5252): 1099-1102. Clues to the early history of the Solar System.
Wasson, John T. 1985.
Meteorites
:
their record of early Solar-System history
. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 267pp. Meteorite recovery, fall phenomena, craters, and orbits.