Investigating the Lake Bosumtwi impact structure: Insight from numerical modeling

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Artemieva, Natalia ^a   Karp, Tobias ^b   Milkereit, Bernd ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Impact structure; Tektites

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846077234     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GC000733     Document Type: Article

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