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Introduction: II.               Asteroid impacts in time and space III.              Criteria for identification of asteroid impact events IV.              Asteroid impacts in time IV.1  Archean asteroid impacts           IV.1.1  ~3.46-3.47 Ga bombardment                 IV.1.1.1  Miralga Creek impacts (~3.47 Ga)                 IV.1.1.2  Marble Bar impacts (~3.46 Ga)                       IV.1.2  ~3.22-3.25 Ga bombardment                       IV.1.2.1  Sulphur Springs unconformities and olistostrome (~3.22 Ga)           IV.1.3  ~2.63-2.48 Ga bombardment                       IV.1.2.2  Jeerinah Impact layer and Carawine tsunami breccia (~2.63 Ga)                       IV.1.2.3  Paraburdoo spherule layer (~2.57 Ga)                       IV.1.2.4  Spherule Marker Bed (~2.56 Ga)                       IV.1.2.5  Dales Gorge Spherule layer (~2.48 Ga) IV.2  Proterozoic asteroid impacts IV.3  Phanerozoic asteroid impacts V.     Australian Asteroid impacts V.1   Exposed impact structures >10 km in diameter          V.1.1  Acraman (~40-90 km)          V.1.2  Yarrabubba (~30-70 km)          V.1.3  Shoemaker (~29-31 km)          V.1.4  Lawn Hill (~18 km)          V.1.5  Strangways (~25-40 km)          V.1.6  Amelia Creek (~20x12 km)          V.1.7  Cleanskin (~15 km)          V.1.8  Glikson (~14 km) V.1.9    Gosses Bluff (~12 km) V.1.10  Kelly West (~8-20 km)       V.1.11  Spider (~11-13 km)  V.1.12  Goyder (~9-12 km)  V.1.13  Impact structures <10 km in diameter                                                                    V.2   Buried asteroid impacts          V.2.1   Warburton East (~200 km)          V.2.2   Warburton West (~200 km)           V.2.3  Woodleigh (~120 km)           V.2.4  Talundilly (84 km)           V.2.4  Gnargoo (~75 km)           V.2.5  Tookoonooka (~55 km)           V.2.6  Mount Ashmore (>50 km)           V.2.7  Coompana (~44 km)           V.2.6  Yallalie (~12 km)           V.2.7  Lake Raeside (~11 km)  V.3   Meteorite impact craters          V.3.1  Goat Paddock (~6 km)          V.3.2  Liverpool (~1.6 km)          V.3.3  Darwin (~1.2 km          V.3.4  Wolfe Creek (~0.88 km))                    V.3.5  Hickman (0.36 km)    V.3.6  Boxhole (0.17 km)    V.3.7  Henbury craters    V.3.8  Other impact craters    V.4   Magnetic and gravity signatures of buried asteroid impact structures    VI.    Asteroid impacts and ore genesis            VI.1  A global perspective            VI.2  Australian impact structures associated with mineralization   VII.  Asteroids and crustal evolution