Impact structures of northeastern Eurasia: The territories of Russia and adjacent countries

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 691-711

  Masaitis, V L ^a  

^a A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; GEOLOGY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; MORPHOLOGY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0033371231     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01381.x     Document Type: Review

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