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The Earth is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets and it has retained the poorest sample of the record of hypervelocity impact by interplanetary bodies throughout geologic time. Although the surviving sample of impact structures is small, the terrestrial impact record has played a major role in understanding and constraining cratering processes, as well as providing important ground-truth information on the three dimensional lithological and structural character of impact structures (). Recently, there has been a growing awareness in the earth-science community that impact is also potentially important as a stochastic driving force for changes to the terrestrial environment. This has stemmed largely from: the discovery of chemical and physical evidence for the involvement of impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary and the associated mass extinction event (e.g. ; ; ), and their relation to the Chicxulub impact structure in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (), the recognition of the resource potential of impact structures, some of which are related to world-class ore deposits, both spatially and genetically (; ), and the recognition of the potentially disastrous consequences of impacts for human civilization ().

The Earth is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets and it has retained the poorest sample of the record of hypervelocity impact by interplanetary bodies throughout geologic time. Although the surviving sample of impact structures is small, the terrestrial impact record has played a major role in understanding and constraining cratering processes, as well as providing important ground-truth information on the three dimensional lithological and structural character of impact structures (). Recently, there has been a growing awareness in the earth-science community that impact is also potentially important as a stochastic driving force for changes to the terrestrial environment. This has stemmed largely from: the discovery of chemical and physical evidence for the involvement of impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary and the associated mass extinction event (e.g. ; ; ), and their relation to the Chicxulub impact structure in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (), the recognition of the resource potential of impact structures, some of which are related to world-class ore deposits, both spatially and genetically (; ), and the recognition of the potentially disastrous consequences of impacts for human civilization ().

The Earth is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets and it has retained the poorest sample of the record of hypervelocity impact by interplanetary bodies throughout geologic time. Although the surviving sample of impact structures is small, the terrestrial impact record has played a major role in understanding and constraining cratering processes, as well as providing important ground-truth information on the three dimensional lithological and structural character of impact structures (). Recently, there has been a growing awareness in the earth-science community that impact is also potentially important as a stochastic driving force for changes to the terrestrial environment. This has stemmed largely from: the discovery of chemical and physical evidence for the involvement of impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary and the associated mass extinction event (e.g. ; ; ), and their relation to the Chicxulub impact structure in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (), the recognition of the resource potential of impact structures, some of which are related to world-class ore deposits, both spatially and genetically (; ), and the recognition of the potentially disastrous consequences of impacts for human civilization ().

The Earth is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets and it has retained the poorest sample of the record of hypervelocity impact by interplanetary bodies throughout geologic time. Although the surviving sample of impact structures is small, the terrestrial impact record has played a major role in understanding and constraining cratering processes, as well as providing important ground-truth information on the three dimensional lithological and structural character of impact structures (). Recently, there has been a growing awareness in the earth-science community that impact is also potentially important as a stochastic driving force for changes to the terrestrial environment. This has stemmed largely from: the discovery of chemical and physical evidence for the involvement of impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary and the associated mass extinction event (e.g. ; ; ), and their relation to the Chicxulub impact structure in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (), the recognition of the resource potential of impact structures, some of which are related to world-class ore deposits, both spatially and genetically (; ), and the recognition of the potentially disastrous consequences of impacts for human civilization ().

The Earth is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets and it has retained the poorest sample of the record of hypervelocity impact by interplanetary bodies throughout geologic time. Although the surviving sample of impact structures is small, the terrestrial impact record has played a major role in understanding and constraining cratering processes, as well as providing important ground-truth information on the three dimensional lithological and structural character of impact structures (). Recently, there has been a growing awareness in the earth-science community that impact is also potentially important as a stochastic driving force for changes to the terrestrial environment. This has stemmed largely from: the discovery of chemical and physical evidence for the involvement of impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary and the associated mass extinction event (e.g. ; ; ), and their relation to the Chicxulub impact structure in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (), the recognition of the resource potential of impact structures, some of which are related to world-class ore deposits, both spatially and genetically (; ), and the recognition of the potentially disastrous consequences of impacts for human civilization ().

The Earth is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets and it has retained the poorest sample of the record of hypervelocity impact by interplanetary bodies throughout geologic time. Although the surviving sample of impact structures is small, the terrestrial impact record has played a major role in understanding and constraining cratering processes, as well as providing important ground-truth information on the three dimensional lithological and structural character of impact structures (). Recently, there has been a growing awareness in the earth-science community that impact is also potentially important as a stochastic driving force for changes to the terrestrial environment. This has stemmed largely from: the discovery of chemical and physical evidence for the involvement of impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary and the associated mass extinction event (e.g. ; ; ), and their relation to the Chicxulub impact structure in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (), the recognition of the resource potential of impact structures, some of which are related to world-class ore deposits, both spatially and genetically (; ), and the recognition of the potentially disastrous consequences of impacts for human civilization ().