The South Range Breccia Belt of the Sudbury Impact Structure: A possible terrace collapse feature

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 505-520

  Scott, Ronald G ^a,b   Spray, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; TERRACE;

CANADA; ONTARIO; SUDBURY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034123211     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01432.x     Document Type: Article

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