Petrography of impact glasses and melt breccias from the El'gygytgyn impact structure, Russia

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1236-1250

  Pittarello, Lidia ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

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EID: 84880140541     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maps.12048     Document Type: Article

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