Annealing of shocked quartz during atmospheric re-entry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Croskell, Michael ^a   Warner, Mike ^a   Morgan, Jo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; TRAJECTORIES;

ANNEALING PROCESS; ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY; BALLISTIC TRAJECTORIES; CHICXULUB IMPACT; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PLANAR DEFORMATION; SHOCKED QUARTZ;

QUARTZ;

EID: 0037110249     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014382     Document Type: Article

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