The Keurusselkä impact structure, Finland - Impact origin confirmed by characterization of planar deformation features in quartz grains

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 434-446

  FerriÈre, Ludovic ^a   Raiskila, Selen ^b   Osinski, Gordon R ^a   Pesonen, Lauri J ^b   Lehtinen, Martti ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Finland)

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EID: 77954645860     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01032.x     Document Type: Article

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