Shock metamorphism of quartz at the submarine Mjølnir impact crater, Barents Sea

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1363-1375

  Sandbakken, Pål T ^a   Langenhorst, Falko ^b,c   Dypvik, Henning ^d  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; QUARTZ; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; SUBMARINE FEATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; MJOLNIR CRATER;

EID: 29244477218     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00407.x     Document Type: Article

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