The complex impact crater Jebel Waqf as Suwwan in Jordan: Effects of target heterogeneity and impact obliquity on central uplift formation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 471-487

  Kenkmann, T ^a   Reimold, W U ^b   Khirfan, M ^c   Salameh, E ^c   Khoury, H ^c   Konsul, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^d Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS)   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FERTILIZERS; LIME; LIMESTONE; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY;

AXIS OF SYMMETRY; IMPACT STRUCTURES; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MARLY LIMESTONES; PLANAR DEFORMATION; RADIAL DISTANCE; STRENGTH PROPERTY; SYNTHETIC BLOCKS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

CRATER; CRATERING; FAULTING; FOLDING; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LIMESTONE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; UPLIFT;

JORDAN;

EID: 78650937985     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(23)     Document Type: Article

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