Bosumtwi impact structure, Ghana: Geochemistry of impactites and target rocks, and search for a meteoritic component

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1493-1511

  Dai, Xiongxin ^a,d   Boamah, Daniel ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^a   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^b   Irvine, Gordon ^c   McDonald, Iain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; METEORITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

EID: 29244471693     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00414.x     Document Type: Article

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