Asteroid Impact May have Triggered Evolution of Earth's Multicellular Life

Asteroid Impact May have Triggered Evolution of Earth's Multicellular Life

Asteroid Impact May have Triggered Evolution of
Earth's Multicellular Life, The Daily Galaxy
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/08/asteroid-impact-may-have-triggered-evolution-of-earths-multicellular-life-todays-most-popular.html

Asteroid may have triggered evolution by Andrew
Letten, Cosmos Online
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/explosion-life-followed-asteroid-strike/

Acraman Impact Structure, South Australia : Image
of the Day, Earth Observatory, NASA.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=42813

Acraman Impact Structure
http://passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/acraman.html

The paper is:

Gostin, V. A., D. M. McKirdy, L. J. Webster and
G. E. Williams, 2010, Ediacaran ice-rafting and
coeval asteroid impact, South Australia: insights into
the terminal Proterozoic environment. Australian
Journal of Earth Sciences: An International
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of
Australia. vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 859-869.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08120099.2010.509408

A related paper is:

Willaims, G. E., and V. A. Gostin, 2010,
Geomorphology of the Acraman impact structure,
Gawler Ranges, South Australia. Cadernos Lab.
Xeolóxico de Laxe Coruña. vol. 35, pp. 209 – 220.
http://www.udc.es/iux/almacen/articulos/cd35_art11.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.