Asteroid impact in the Black Sea. Death by drowning or asphyxiation?

Natural Hazards

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 327-338

  Schuiling, Roelof Dirk ^a   Cathcart, Richard B ^b   Badescu, Viorel ^c   Isvoranu, Dragos ^c   Pelinovsky, Efim ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Geographos   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Asteroid impact; Black Sea; Hydrogen sulfide; Immobilization of metal wastes

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASTEROID; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IMPACT; NATURAL DISASTER; TSUNAMI;

BLACK SEA; BULGARIA; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKEY; UKRAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846354979     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-0017-7     Document Type: Article

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