Timescales of shock processes in chondritic and martian meteorites

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7045, 2005, Pages 1071-1074

  Beck, P ^a   Gillet, Ph ^a   El Goresy, A ^b   Mostefaoui, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH (PLANET); EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SHOCK WAVES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ASTEROID COLLISIONS; MARTIAN METEORITES; SHEAR MELT; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS;

METEOROLOGY;

CHONDRITE; MINERAL; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MARTIAN METEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SHOCK WAVE; TIME;

EID: 21344463823     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03616     Document Type: Article

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