Laboratory impacts into dry and wet sandstone with and without an overlying water layer: Implications for scaling laws and projectile survivability

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1905-1914

  Baldwin, E C ^a   Milner, D J ^b   Burchell, M J ^b   Crawford, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 41549087108     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00549.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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