Investigation of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data of the possible impact structure at Serra da Cangalha, Brazil

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-246

  Reimold, Wolf U ^a   Cooper, Gordon R J ^a   Romano, Rafael ^b   Cowan, Duncan R ^c   Koeberl, Christian ^d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c Cowan Geodata Services ^*  (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645471667     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00207.x     Document Type: Article

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