Impact! - Bolides, craters, and catastrophes

Elements

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-24

  Reimold, W Uwe ^a   Jourdan, Fred ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Impact cratering; Impactites; Mass extinctions; Projectile identification; Shatter cones; Shock metamorphism

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MOON;

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS; GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS; GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; IMPACT CRATERING; IMPACTITES; MASS EXTINCTION; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

PROJECTILES;

ASTEROID; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CRATER; CRETACEOUS; DATING METHOD; EARTH; GEOCHEMISTRY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; MASS EXTINCTION; METEORITE; MINERALOGY; PALEOGENE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; SOLAR SYSTEM; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 84858134400     PISSN: 18115209     EISSN: 18115217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gselements.8.1.19     Document Type: Article

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