Life began with a bang in Sudbury, 1.8 billion years ago: scientists
The Gazette (Montreal)
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service December 4, 2009 4:03 PM Locator map showing the site of a meteorite hit near Sudbury about 1.85 billion years ago ...
Did life begin in Sudbury?
Canada.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:27 PM PST
The mountain-sized meteorite that struck Sudbury nearly two billion years ago already known to have made the northern Ontario city a global mining mecca may have also triggered changes in Earth's ocean chemistry that allowed complex life to begin evolving on the planet, two U.S. government scientists have theorized. ...
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05 December 2009
Canada Meteorite News- Sudbury Impact Makes Waves 5DEC09
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09 November 2009
Meteor/Meteorite News- Sudbury Impact Ended Creation of Banded Iron Formations 9NOV09
Sudbury Impact Ended Creation of Banded Iron Formations
There is a new paper published in the November 2009 issue of Geologythat argues that the Sudbury Impact in Canada ended the creation of
Banded Iron Formations during the Precambrian.
The paper is:
Slack, J. F. and W. F. Cannon, 2009, Extraterrestrial demise of banded
iron formations 1.85 billion years ago. Geology. vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1011-1014,
doi:10.1130/G30259A.1
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/11/1011.abstract
Previous Geological Society of America Meeting abstracts can be found at:
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_162145.htm
and http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2008AM/finalprogram/abstract_146662.htm
Other web pages:
Banded iron formation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation
Banded Iron Formation
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/RogueComCollege/RCC_Lectures/Banded_Iron.html
Geologic evidence for major environmental change
http://tiny.cc/BandedIronClimate
http://academic.udayton.edu/MichaelSandy/Global%20warming%20powerpoints/Geologic%20evidence%20for%20global%20change.ppt
Source: Paul H., Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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