Aorounga and Gweni Fada impact structures, Chad: Remote sensing, petrography, and geochemistry of target rocks

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1455-1471

  Koeberl, Christian ^a   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^b   Cooper, Gordon ^b   Cowan, Duncan ^c   Vincent, Pierre M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Cowan Geodata Services ^*  (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; PETROGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 29244471706     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00412.x     Document Type: Article

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