Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record

This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy with emphasis on the recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the Umbria Marche sequence in Central Italy with an almost perfect stratigraphic record over the last 200 Million years A general introduction to impact cratering and a discussion of distal ejecta and impact layers around the world is followed by a detailed description of the record of the impact of extraterrestrial bodies in sediments of the Umbria Marche Apennines The volume is of interest to a diverse audience in the geological and planetary sciences ranging from upper undergraduate to research level This book can also be used by students and researchers as a field guide to some of the most important Italian impact layers