Terrestrial impact craters: Their spatial and temporal distribution and impacting bodies

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 357-376

  Grieve, Richard A F ^a   Pesonen, Lauri J ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATERING; IMPACT; TERRESTRIAL RECORD;

EID: 0029774480     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00117541     Document Type: Article

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