Hydrocode simulation of the Chicxulub impact event and the production of climatically active gases

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue E12, 1998, Pages 28607-28625

  Pierazzo, Elisabetta ^a   Kring, David A ^a   Jay Melosh, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SULFUR;

MEXICO;

EID: 0033604666     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JE02496     Document Type: Article

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