Shocked rocks and impact glasses from the El'gygytgyn impact structure, Russia

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1495-1508

  Gurov, Eugene P ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; PLIOCENE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 4844229608     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00124.x     Document Type: Article

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