Shock and post-shock temperatures in an ice-quartz mixture: implications for melting during planetary impact events

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 162-170

  Kraus, R G ^a   Stewart, S T ^a   Seifter, A ^b   Obst, A W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

equation of state; impact cratering; melting; shock temperature; water ice

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ENERGY PARTITIONING; EQUATION OF STATE; IMPACT CRATERING; IMPACT EVENTS; INDUCED MELTING; LENGTH SCALE; MULTIPLE SHOCKS; PLANETARY SURFACES; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE EQUILIBRATION; PRINCIPAL HUGONIOT; SHOCK ENERGY; SHOCK FRONTS; SHOCK PHYSICS; SHOCK TEMPERATURE; SHOCK VELOCITIES; THERMAL EQUILIBRATIONS; TIME-SCALES; WATER ICE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MELTING; MIXTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SHOCK WAVES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

ICE;

COMPRESSIBILITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRATERING; EQUATION OF STATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; ICE; IMPACT; MELTING; PARTITIONING; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; QUARTZ; SHOCK WAVE; WAVE REFLECTION;

EID: 72949101209     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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