The age of the Kara impact structure, Russia

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 361-372

  Trieloff, Mario ^a   Deutsch, Alexander ^b   Jessberger, Elmar K ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; IMPACT STRUCTURE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0031843415     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01640.x     Document Type: Article

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