A new approach to the calculation of the cratering rate of the earth over the last 125 ± 20 Myr

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 317, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 429-437

  Hughes, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earth

Indexed keywords

CRATER DIAMETER; DETECTION LIMITS; LOWER LIMITS; NEW APPROACHES; POWER-LAW; PRODUCTION RATES; SIMPLE++; SIZE RANGES;

EID: 0001292007     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03568.x     Document Type: Article

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