Giant impact-induced blow-off of primordial atmosphere

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 384, Issue , 2005, Pages 427-432

  Ni, Sidao ^a   Ahrens, Thomas J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Blow off; Impact

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOMETRY; METEOR IMPACTS; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; BLOW OFF; FREE SURFACE VELOCITY; IMPACT; INTERFERENCE RANGE; PRIMORDIAL ATMOSPHERE; SURFACE WAVE AMPLITUDE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; FLUID; IMPACT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 45049087201     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2384-1.427     Document Type: Article

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