Melt particle characteristics of the within-and out-of-crater suevites from the Bosumtwi impact structure, Ghana: Implications for crater formation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 411-442

  Coney, Louise ^a   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^a,b   Gibson, Roger L ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^c,d   Ogilvie, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GLASS; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS;

CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS; CRATER FORMATION; IMPACT STRUCTURES; LATERAL MOVEMENT; MECHANISMS OF FORMATION; PARTICLE CHARACTERISTICS; PLANAR DEFORMATION; SHOCKED QUARTZ;

METEOR IMPACTS;

CRATER; GEOCHEMISTRY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; PETROGRAPHY; SUEVITE;

ASHANTI; GHANA; LAKE BOSUMTWI;

EID: 78650939968     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(21)     Document Type: Article

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