Early fracturing and impact residue emplacement: Can modelling help to predict their location in major craters?

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 247-265

  Kearsley, Anton ^a   Graham, Giles ^b   McDonnell, Tony ^c   Bland, Phil ^d   Hough, Rob ^e   Helps, Paul ^f  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Ichthyology   (Australia)

^f KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; FRACTURE; GEOCHEMISTRY; IMPACT STRUCTURE;

EID: 2142758296     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00339.x     Document Type: Article

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