Crustal evolution of the early earth: The role of major impacts

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Mar 1979

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Cratering, Earth Crust, Impact Damage, Planetary Evolution, Asteroids, Craters, Oceans, Structural Basins, Temperature Gradients

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The role of major impact basins (such as those which formed on the moon before 4 billion years ago) is examined to determine the effects of such impacts on the early crustal evolution of the earth. Specifically addressed is the fundamental problem of what is the origin of the earth's fundamental crustal dichotomy of low density continental and high density oceanic crust and its relationship to the superficially similar highlands/maria crustal dichotomies of the moon, Mercury and Mars.

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