Evidence for a very high carbon/iridium ratio in the Tunguska impactor

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 891-895

  Rasmussen, Kaare L ^a   Olsen, Hans J F ^b   Gwozdz, Raymond ^c   Kolesnikov, Euginev M ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b Universtity of Copenhagen ^*  (Denmark)

^c Tracechem   (Denmark)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IRIDIUM;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TUNGUSKA;

EID: 0033395486     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01407.x     Document Type: Article

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