Cerro do Jarau, Rio Grande do Sul: A possible new impact structure in southern Brazil

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 173-190

  Crósta, Alvaro P ^a   Lourenço, Fernanda Silva ^a   Priebe, Gustavo Heinzelmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; METEORITES; SANDSTONE; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION STUDIES; IMPACT STRUCTURES; JOINT SURFACES; METEORITE IMPACT; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SHOCK FEATURES; SOUTHERN BRAZIL; TECTONIC PROCESS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

BASALT; IMPACT STRUCTURE; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; METEORITE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; VOLCANO;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO SUL;

EID: 78650964315     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(12)     Document Type: Article

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