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" Impact cratering : "
edited by Gordon R. Osinski, Western University London, Ontario, Elisabetta Pierazzo, Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, Arizona.
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664522
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Impact cratering : : processes and products /\ edited by Gordon R. Osinski, Western University London, Ontario, Elisabetta Pierazzo, Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, Arizona.
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xiii, 316 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 28 cm
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9781405198295 (cloth)
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: 140519829X (cloth)
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| Notes
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Tucson mispelled on title page.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Impact cratering: processes and products -- 2. Population of impactors and the impact cratering rate in the Solar System -- 3. The contact and compression stage of impact cratering -- 4. Excavation and impact ejecta emplacement -- 5. The modification stage of crater formation -- 6. Impact-induced hydrothermal activity - 7. Impactites: their characteristics and spatial distribution -- 8. Shock metamorphism -- 9. Impact melting -- 10. Environmental effects of impact events -- 11. The geomicrobiology of impact structures -- 12. Economic deposits at terrestrial impact structures -- 13. Remote sensing of impact craters -- 14. Geophysical studies of impact craters -- 15. Projectile identification in terrestrial impact structures and ejecta material -- 16. The geochronology of impact craters -- 17. Numerical modelling of impact processes -- 18. Comparison of simple impact craters: a case study of Meteor and Lonar Craters -- 19. Comparison of mid-size terrestrial complex impact structures: a case study -- 20. Processes and products of impact cratering: glossary and definitions.
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Impact craters.
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Cratering.
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QE612.I47 2013
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QE612.I47 2013
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Osinski, Gordon R.
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Pierazzo, Elisabetta
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