Woodleigh, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: A new 120 km diameter impact structure

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 119-128

  Mory, Arthur J ^a   Iasky, Robert P ^a   Glikson, Andrew Y ^b   Pirajno, Franco ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Impact craters; Magma contamination; Meteoroids; Pseudotachylite; Shock metamorphism; Uplifts

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MAGMA CONTAMINATION; METEORITE; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; QUARTZ; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034655942     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00031-5     Document Type: Article

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