The Aouelloul Crater, Mauritania: on the problem of confirming the impact origin of a small crater

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 513-517

  Koeberl, C ^a   Reimold, W U ^a   Shirey, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT CRATER; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

MAURITANIA;

EID: 0031716340     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01655.x     Document Type: Article

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