Axial focusing of impact energy in the Earth's interior: A possible link to flood basalts and hotspots

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 541-550

  Boslough, M B ^a   Chael, E P ^a   Trucano, T G ^a   Crawford, D A ^a   Campbell, D L ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; SEISMOLOGY; SHOCK WAVES;

AXIS OF SYMMETRY; EARTH'S INTERIOR; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; FLOOD BASALT; IMPACT ENERGY; IMPACT SITE; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; STRAIN CYCLES;

FOCUSING;

ASTHENOSPHERE; FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SHOCK WAVE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 84870851054     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.541     Document Type: Article

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