Ejecta formation and crater development of the Mjølnir impact

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 467-479

  Shuvalov, Valery ^a   Dypvik, Henning ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; JURASSIC;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 2042452442     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00105.x     Document Type: Article

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