Hypervelocity impacts on dry and wet sandstone: Observations of ejecta dynamics and crater growth

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-32

  Hoerth, Tobias ^a   Schäfer, Frank ^a   Thoma, Klaus ^a   Kenkmann, Thomas ^b   Poelchau, Michael H ^b   Lexow, Bernd ^a   Deutsch, Alexander ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH SPEED DYNAMICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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EID: 84873055395     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maps.12044     Document Type: Article

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