Atmospheric plumes created by meteoroids impacting the Earth

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 104, Issue E3, 1999, Pages 5877-5889

  Shuvalov, V V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; IMPACT; METEORITE;

EID: 0033602507     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JE900037     Document Type: Article

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