Recrystallized impact glasses of the Onaping Formation and the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Sudbury Structure, Ontario, Canada

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2019-2036

  Dressler, B O ^a   Weiser, T ^b   Brockmeyer, P ^c  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; IGNEOUS COMPLEX; IMPACT; ONAPING FORMATION; RECRYSTALLIZATION;

CANADA, ONTARIO, SUDBURY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030455421     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(96)00067-1     Document Type: Article

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