Local and global environmental effects of impacts on earth

Elements

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-60

  Pierazzo, Elisabetta ^c   Artemieva, Natalia ^a,b  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Asteroids; Climate change; Comets; Impact; Mass extinction; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SHOCK WAVES; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BLAST WAVE PROPAGATION; COMETS; IMPACT; IMPACT EVENTS; LOCALIZED DAMAGE; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MASS EXTINCTION; MODERN CIVILIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ASTEROID; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMET; CRETACEOUS; EARLY EARTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MASS EXTINCTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84858117236     PISSN: 18115209     EISSN: 18115217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gselements.8.1.55     Document Type: Article

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