Understanding very small (<200 m in diameter) and small (<1.5 km in diameter) impact craters on Earth in order to determine the degree of environmental damage induced by such events by studying their proximal ejecta blankets

2020/39/D/ST10/02675

Keywords

Descriptors

  • ST10_006: Ewolucja Ziemi, sedymentologia, tektonika, geologia regionalna, geologia morska, geologia planetarna
  • ST10_007: Geomorfologia, badania kriosfery, zmiany globalne i regionalne krajobrazu Ziemi

Panel

ST10 – Earth sciences: Earth system science, atmospheric sciences, climatology, geochemistry, geodesy, geoecology, geophysics, physical geography, geoinformatics, planetary geology, pedology, mining, chemical and physical oceanology, environmental protection

Host institution

Instytut Nauk Geologicznych, Polska Akademia Nauk, Ośrodek Badawczy w Krakowie

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr Anna Izabela Łosiak

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call

SONATA 16 – announced on 2020-09-15

Amount awarded
744 200 PLN
Project start date
2021-07-02
Project end date
2026-07-01
Project duration
60 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Pending project

Project description

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Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (3)

  1. Holocene impact craters on Earth

    Authors:
    Anna Losiak
    Academic press:
    MISCELLANEA GEOGRAPHICA (year: 2023, volume: 27, pages: 46029), Publisher: Sciendo / De Gruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2478/mgrsd-2023-0016 – link to the publication
  2. Discriminating between impact or nonimpact origin of small meteorite crater candidates: No evidence for an impact origin for the Tor crater, Sweden

    Authors:
    Plado J., Losiak A., Jõeleht A., Ormö J., Alexanderson H., Alwmark C., Wild E.M, Steier P., Awdankiewicz M., Belcher C.
    Academic press:
    Meteoritics & Planetary Science (year: 2022, volume: 57, pages: 1987–2002), Publisher: Willey
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/maps.13914 – link to the publication
  3. Perchlorates on Mars: Occurrence and implications for putative life on the Red Planet

    Authors:
    Piotr Rzymski, Anna Losiak, Jacob Heinz, Marta Szukalska, Ewa Florek, Barbara Poniedziałek, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Dirk Schulze-Makuch
    Academic press:
    Icarus (year: 2024, volume: 421, pages: 116246), Publisher: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116246 – link to the publication

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