Environmental perturbations caused by the impacts of asteroids and comets

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-78

  Toon, Owen B ^a,d   Zahnle, Kevin ^a   Morrison, David ^a   Turco, Richard P ^b,e   Covey, Curt ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; IMPACT;

COASTAL ZONES; DISASTERS; DUST; EARTHQUAKES; EXPLOSIVES; FIRES; FLOODS; GEOPHYSICS; OZONE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS; TSUNAMIS;

ASSOCIATED MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; EXTINCTION MECHANISM; GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES; NATURAL DISASTERS; WATER VAPOR INJECTION;

ASTEROIDS;

DODECATHEON;

EID: 0030747907     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RG03038     Document Type: Article

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