Original diameter and depth of erosion of the Popigai impact crater, Russia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 384, Issue , 2005, Pages 131-140

  Masaitis, V L ^a   Naumov, M V ^a   Mashchak, M S ^a  

^a A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Depth of erosion; Impact craters; Morphology; Popigai impact crater; Russia; Structural features

Indexed keywords

EROSION; MORPHOLOGY; ROCKS;

CONCENTRIC ZONES; CRATER FORMATION; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; IMPACT CRATERS; IMPACT STRUCTURES; INNER STRUCTURE; RUSSIA; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

METEOR IMPACTS;

BEDROCK; CRATER; DRILLING; EJECTA; EROSION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 37549016753     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2384-1.131     Document Type: Article

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