Ries crater and suevite revisited-Observations and modeling Part I: Observations

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 515-589

  Stöffler, Dieter ^a,b   Artemieva, Natalia A ^a,c,d   Wünnemann, Kai ^a   Reimold, W Uwe ^a,b   Jacob, Juliane ^a   Hansen, Birgit K ^a   Summerson, Iona A T ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^d PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/maps.12086     Document Type: Review

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