Fossils Found Preserved in Asteroid Impact Ejecta

[Oxytropidoceras]

How Asteroid Strikes Preserved Signs of Ancient

Life, Adam Mann, Wired Magazine, 2015

https://web.archive.org/web/20150323170849/http://www.wired.com/2014/04/asteroid-impact-amber

The paper is;

Schultz, P. H., R. S. Harris , S. J. Clemett, K. L.

Thomas-Keprta, and M. Zárate, 2015, Preserved

flora and organics in impact melt breccias Geology,

published online on 15 April 2014 as doi:10.1130/G35343.1

http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2014/04/14/G35343.1.abstract

An earlier article is:

Evidence That Organic Material Can Survive the

Impact of a Meteorite, SciTechDaily, Nov. 13, 2013

http://scitechdaily.com/evidence-organic-material-can-survive-impact-meteorite/

The paper is:

Howard, K. T., M. J. Bailey, D. Berhanu, P. A. Bland,

G. Cressey, L. E. Howard, C. Jeynes, R. Matthewman,

Z. Martins, Mark A. Sephton, Vlad Stolojan, and S.

Verchovsky, 2013, Biomass preservation in impact

melt ejecta. Nature Geoscience vol. 6, pp. 1018–1022.

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n12/full/ngeo1996.html

PDF file at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/260208850_Biomass_preservation_in_impact_melt_ejecta

Yours,

Paul H.