Magnetic imaging of the Vredefort impact crater, South Africa

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 456-468

  Muundjua, Manfriedt ^a,b   Hart, Rodger J ^a   Gilder, Stuart A ^c   Carporzen, Laurent ^c   Galdeano, Armand ^c  

^a ITHEMBA LABS   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

magnetic survey; magnetism; meteorite impact; plasma; Vredefort crater

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC IMAGING; MAGNETIC SURVEY; METAMORPHISM;

GEOMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; METEORITES; PETROGRAPHY; RHEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CRATER; GRANULITE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; METAMORPHIC FACIES; PETROGRAPHY; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; WAVELENGTH;

AFRICA; FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VREDEFORT DOME;

EID: 34548515505     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.044     Document Type: Article

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