Palaeomagnetism of the Vredefort meteorite crater and implications for craters on Mars

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7039, 2005, Pages 198-201

  Carporzen, Laurent ^a   Gilder, Stuart A ^a   Hart, Rodger J ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; METEOR IMPACTS; SHOCK WAVES;

IMPACT CRATERS; MAGNETIC INTENSITIES; PALAEOMAGNETISM; PRESSURE DEMAGNETIZATION;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

MAGNETITE;

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOMAGNETISM;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; OSCILLATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VREDEFORT DOME; WORLD;

EID: 18844362136     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03560     Document Type: Article

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