Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 517-530

  Kring, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BLAST; BALLISTIC SHOCK WAVE; IMPACT;

USA, ARIZONA, METEOR CRATER;

EID: 0031437545     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01297.x     Document Type: Article

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