The science fiction story "The (Fatal) Vital Experiment," explains the early history of the Earth.
The short story featuring a work trip "The Keepers" explains how the drill core sampling is organized.
Selected articles, press releases, and public lectures
Invited to read a series of public lectures at the Summer School in UCT.
Carpineti A. (2023) Rare Yellow Desert Glass Was Created By A Meteorite Impact, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/rare-yellow-desert-glass-was-created-by-a-meteorite-impact-71718
Kovaleva E. (2023) Strange yellow glass found in Libyan desert may have formed from lost meteor impact, Live Science, https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/strange-yellow-glass-found-in-libyan-desert-may-have-formed-from-lost-meteor-impact.
Kovaleva E. (2023) Libyan desert’s yellow glass: how we discovered the origin of these rare and mysterious shards. The Conversation: Africa, https://theconversation.com/libyan-deserts-yellow-glass-how-we-discovered-the-origin-of-these-rare-and-mysterious-shards-217565.
Dzombak R. (2023) Earth’s Most Ancient Impact Craters Are Disappearing, AGU press-release, https://news.agu.org/press-release/earths-most-ancient-impact-craters-are-disappearing/
Short radio interviews for SAFM, and Radio 786, June 2023.
Kovaleva E. (2023) Qu'est-ce qu'une météorite ? Je visite et j'étudie les cratères qu'elles ont laissés sur notre planète. The Conversation Africa, https://theconversation.com/quest-ce-quune-meteorite-je-visite-et-jetudie-les-crateres-quelles-ont-laisses-sur-notre-planete-207207
Kovaleva E. (2023) What are meteorites? I visit and study the craters they’ve left across our planet. The Conversation: Africa, https://theconversation.com/what-are-meteorites-i-visit-and-study-the-craters-theyve-left-across-our-planet-205866
Kornei K. (2022) A giant impact triggered earthquakes for thousands of years, Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220066
Kornei K. (2021) Ejecta discovered near site of ancient meteorite impact, Eos, 102, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO161880
Interview for “Radio Russia” and “Radio Culture”: “Meteorites and impact craters – Geology of meteorite bombardment,” Sept 13th 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-P_fMnjcs&t=257s&ab_channel=DmitryKonanykhin
Lectures at the Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg: “Impact cratering as a geological process;” “Structural deformation in zircon as an indicator of impact metamorphic conditions,” July 20th and 22nd 2021 respectively.
An online lecture for the GSSA: “Shocked and Recrystallized Zircon: a Recorder of the Meteorite Strike,” August 5th, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-9jgpxHHyQ
Roup J. (2019) Art of early man left in the greatest meteor crater on Earth – new study by University of the Free State, South Africa, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-early-man-left-greatest-meteor-crater-earth-new-julian-roup/
Public lecture at the Department of Geology, UFS: “Shocked minerals: the story they tell about meteorite strikes,” July 24th, 2019.
Public lecture at the Department of Geology, UFS: “Tectonic versus impact deformation in zircon:
Implications for the Vredefort Impact Structure and for the Lunar zircon from Apollo 17,” March 14th, 2018.
Online publication in the EGU GeoLog “Imaggeo on Mondays: Robberg Peninsula – a home of seals”
Online publication in the EGU GeoLog “Imaggeo on Mondays: Of ancient winds and sands”
https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2017/11/06/imaggeo-on-mondays-of-ancient-winds-and-sands/
Public lecture at the Department of Geology, UFS: “Bending zircons and breaking ages: what is crystal-plastic deformation, how it affects microstructures, re-distributes trace elements, and disturbs radiogenic isotopes in zircon,” February 9th, 2016.