Impact ejecta in upper Eocene deposits at Massignano, Italy

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 589-597

  Glass, Billy P ^a   Liu, Shaobin ^a   Montanari, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EJECTA; EOCENE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

ASCOLI PICENO; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; MASSIGNANO; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 2342650737     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00921.x     Document Type: Article

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