An international and multidisciplinary drilling project into a young complex impact structure: The 2004 ICDP Bosumtwi Crater Drilling Project - An overview

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 483-511

  Koeberl, Christian ^a   Milkereit, Bernd ^b   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^c   Scholz, Christopher A ^d   Amoako, Philip Y O ^e   Boamah, Daniel ^e   Danuor, Sylvester K ^f   Karp, Tobias ^d,g   Kueck, Jochem ^h   Hecky, Robert E ⁱ   King, John W ^j   Peack, John A ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Ministry of Lands Forestry and Mines Ghana   (Ghana)

^f KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^g Geophysik GGD mbH   (Germany)

^h GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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EID: 34250687519     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb01057.x     Document Type: Review

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