The Network on Impact Cratering and the Evolution of Planet Earth was approved by the ESF Executive Council for a three year period from January 1993.
The Chairman was Dieter Stöffler, Professor of Cosmic Mineralogy and Director of the Institute of Planetology at the University of Münster.

The Network on Impact Cratering and the Evolution of Planet Earth focuses on the study of terrestrial impact phenomena and on their global and local effects on the geological evolution of the crust and lithosphere, on the evolution of the atmosphere and climate, on the origin and evolution of life with special emphasis on mass extinctions.
Related sciences involved in the Network are: geophysics, geology, paleontology, biology, mineralogy, material science, planetology and astronomy.

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