Target earth: Evidence for large-scale impact events

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 822, Issue , 1997, Pages 319-352

  Grieve, Richard A F ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 0030741090     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48350.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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