Structural and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) evidence for oblique impact on terrestrial basalt flows: Lonar crater, India

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 563-574

  Misra, Saumitra ^a   Arif, Md ^a   Basavaiah, Nathani ^a   Srivastava, P K ^b   Dube, Anand ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^b National Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO)   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SMALL SATELLITES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; BILATERAL SYMMETRY; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS;

BASALT;

ASTER; BASALT; CRATER LAKE; DECCAN TRAPS; EJECTA; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYMMETRY;

INDIA; LONAR CRATER; MAHARASHTRA;

EID: 77950982226     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26550.1     Document Type: Article

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