Numerical modeling of impact heating and cooling of the Vredefort impact structure

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 293-303

  Turtle, Elizabeth P ^a,b   Pierazzo, Elisabetta ^b   O'Brien, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRATERING; IMPACT STRUCTURE; METEORITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

SOUTH AFRICA; VREDEFORT STRUCTURE; WITWATERSRAND BASIN;

EID: 0038544403     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00265.x     Document Type: Article

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