Shock metamorphism of Bosumtwi impact crater rocks, shock attenuation, and uplift formation

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5908, 2008, Pages 1678-1681

  Ferrière, Ludovic ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^a   Ivanov, Boris A ^b   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE; QUARTZ; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; SHOCK WAVE; UPLIFT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRATEROSTIGMA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SHOCK WAVE;

EID: 58149236488     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166283     Document Type: Article

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29. Drilling was funded by ICDP, NSF, the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF), the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. We thank DOSECC (Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earth's Continental Crust) for the drilling operations. This work was supported by the Austrian FWF (grants P17194-N10 and P18862-N10) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. B.A.I. was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Science (RFBR grant 08-05-00908-a), and W.U.R.'s research is supported by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and Humboldt University of Berlin.