Meteoritic ablation debris from the Transantarctic Mountains: Evidence for a Tunguska-like impact over Antarctica ca. 480ka ago

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 104-113

  van Ginneken, M ^a   Folco, L ^a   Perchiazzi, N ^b   Rochette, P ^c   Bland, P A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic ice cores; Meteoritic ablation debris; Meteoritic impacts; Micrometeorites; Tunguska airburst

Indexed keywords

ABLATION DEBRIS; ANTARCTIC ICE CORE; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY; BULK COMPOSITIONS; ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GIANT IMPACT; HOMOGENEOUS COMPOSITION; ICE CORE; ICE LAYERS; ICE SHEET; IMPACT EVENTS; LITERATURE DATA; MAGNESIOFERRITE; MAGNETIZATION MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POROUS AGGREGATES; PROJECTILE MASS; SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPHERULITIC AGGREGATES; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION; TUNGUSKA;

ABLATION; AGGREGATES; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMOLOGY; DEBRIS; DENDRIMERS; DOMES; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FIELD EMISSION; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; LANDFORMS; OLIVINE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

METEORITES;

ABLATION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; ICE CORE; IMPACT; MAGNETIZATION; METEORITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPHERULE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; VICTORIA LAND;

SPHERULES;

EID: 77950341377     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.028     Document Type: Article

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