Re-evaluating the age of the Haughton impact event

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1777-1787

  Sherlock, Sarah C ^a   Kelley, Simon P ^a   Parnell, John ^b   Green, Paul ^c   Lee, Pascal ^d   Osinski, Gordon R ^e   Cockell, Charles S ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT STRUCTURE;

CANADA; DEVON ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 33244493970     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00146.x     Document Type: Article

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