The Sudbury Structure: A circular impact crater?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Morris, W A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METEOR IMPACTS;

GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORMATION; METEORITE IMPACT; MORPHOLOGY AND SIZE; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT; STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE; SUDBURY IGNEOUS COMPLEXES; VERTICAL SECTION; VOLUME REDUCTIONS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 0037110227     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015255     Document Type: Article

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