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Deep down at Chicxulub

Jay Melosh ()
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Jay Melosh: Lunar and Planetary Lab-West, University of Arizona

Nature, 2001, vol. 414, issue 6866, 861-862

Abstract: The best-preserved large impact crater on Earth is overlain by a kilometre of sediment. It is possible to look not only through that wrapping but also beyond, at the effects of the impact at the crust–mantle boundary.

Date: 2001
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