Craters unchained

H. J. Melosh ()
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H. J. Melosh: the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6690, 221-223

Abstract: In July 1994, fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made their dramatic plunge into Jupiter. Ever since then, planetary scientists have been especially alive to the prospect of identifying chains of terrestrial impact craters — the remnants of similar sequential impacts on Earth. A reappraisal of one such putative chain in the midwestern United States concludes that the craters were in fact caused by volcanic activity; they could, however, be of mixed origins.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/28271

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