Kamil Crater (Egypt): Ground truth for small-scale meteorite impacts on Earth

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-182

  Folco, L ^a   Di Martino, M ^b   El Barkooky, A ^c   D'Orazio, M ^d,e   Lethy, A ^f   Urbini, S ^g   Nicolosi, I ^g   Hafez, M ^f   Cordier, C ^a   van Ginneken, M ^a   Zeoli, A ^a   Radwan, A M ^f   El Khrepy, S ^f   El Gabry, M ^f   Gomaa, M ^f   Barakat, A A ^h   Serra, R ⁱ   El Sharkawi, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^g ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^h Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority   (Egypt)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MODELS; EARTH'S CRUST; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROUND DATA; GROUND TRUTH; HUMAN POPULATION; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS; IMPACT CRATERS; IMPACTORS; IRON METEORITES; METEORITE IMPACT; PHYSICAL MODEL; PLANETARY BODIES; RAY STRUCTURE;

IRON; METEORITES; MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

METEOR IMPACTS;

CRATER; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; IRON METEORITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

EGYPT;

EID: 78851472559     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31624.1     Document Type: Article

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