El'gygytgyn impact crater, Chukotka, Arctic Russia: Impact cratering aspects of the 2009 ICDP drilling project

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1108-1129

  Koeberl, Christian ^a,b   Pittarello, Lidia ^a   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^c,d   Raschke, Ulli ^c   Brigham Grette, Julie ^e   Melles, Martin ^f   Minyuk, Pavel ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

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

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84880162253     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maps.12146     Document Type: Article

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