Woodleigh impact structure, Australia: Shock petrography and geochemical studies

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1109-1130

  Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^b   Hough, Robert M ^c,d   McDonald, Iain ^e   Bevan, Alex ^c   Amare, Kassa ^b   French, Bevan M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; GEOCHEMISTRY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; PETROGRAPHY; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

AUSTRALIA; CARNARVON BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOODLEIGH;

EID: 0242401844     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00301.x     Document Type: Article

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