Effects of asteroid and comet impacts on habitats for lithophytic organisms - A synthesis

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1901-1914

  Cockell, Charles S ^a   Lee, Pascal ^b   Broady, Paul ^c   Lim, Darlene S S ^b   Osinski, Gordon R ^d   Parnell, John ^e   Koeberl, Christian ^f   Pesonen, Lauri ^g   Salminen, Johanna ^g  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMPACT STRUCTURE;

EID: 33244458878     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00153.x     Document Type: Article

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