A laboratory model of splash-form tektites

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1331-1340

  Elkins Tanton, Linda T ^a,b   Aussillous, Pascale ^c   Bico, José ^d   Quéré, David ^c   Bush, John W M ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; EJECTA; FLUID DYNAMICS; IMPACT STRUCTURE; METEORITE; MODELING; TEKTITE;

EID: 0942302148     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00317.x     Document Type: Article

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