Basin-forming impacts: Reconnaissance modeling

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 29-49

  Ivanov, B A ^a   Melosh, H J ^b,d   Pierazzo, E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

CURRENT STATUS; IMPACT BASINS; MECHANICAL EFFECTS; PLANETARY BODIES; PLANETARY SCALE; REGULAR GRIDS; SOUTH POLE-AITKEN; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

METEOR IMPACTS;

ASTEROID; COLLISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARS; MERCURY (PLANET); MOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY LANDFORM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 78650985887     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(03)     Document Type: Article

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