Impact crater collapse

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue , 1999, Pages 385-415

  Melosh, H J ^a,b   Ivanov, B A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acoustic fluidization; Central peaks; Crater morphology; Dynamical weakening; Transient crater

Indexed keywords

CRATER;

EID: 0033372344     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.27.1.385     Document Type: Article

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