Tookoonooka, a large buried early Cretaceous impact structure in the Eromanga Basin of southwestern Queensland, Australia

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 593-599

  Gostin, V A ^a   Therriault, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

CRETACEOUS; IMPACT; PLANAR DEFORMATION FEATURE; QUARTZ; TOOKOONOOKA IMPACT STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; GEOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

AUSTRALIA; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; METEOROIDS; QUARTZ;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, EROMANGA BASIN;

EID: 0030782092     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01303.x     Document Type: Article

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