Biomass preservation in impact melt ejecta

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1018-1022

  Howard, Kieren Torres ^a,b,c   Bailey, Melanie J ^d   Berhanu, Deborah ^a,b   Bland, Phil A ^e   Cressey, Gordon ^b   Howard, Lauren E ^b   Jeynes, Chris ^d   Matthewman, Richard ^f   Martins, Zita ^f   Sephton, Mark A ^f   Stolojan, Vlad ^d   Verchovsky, Sasha ^g  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CRATER; EJECTA; GLASS; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MELT; METEORITE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYMER; PRESERVATION; PROTEIN; PYROLYSIS; TERRAIN;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84889055550     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1996     Document Type: Article

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