Asteroid impact in the Black Sea. Death by drowning or asphyxiation?

Roelof Schuiling (), Richard Cathcart (), Viorel Badescu (), Dragos Isvoranu () and Efim Pelinovsky ()

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2007, vol. 40, issue 2, 327-338

Abstract: Normally the consequences of an impact of an asteroid in a water body are discussed in terms of the beach run up of impact-generated waves. If even a small asteroid would hit the Black Sea, however, the potential emissions of toxic and flammable gases could be more disastrous to the region (comprised of Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey and Bulgaria) than the tsunami caused by the impact. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

Keywords: Black Sea; Asteroid impact; Hydrogen sulfide; Immobilization of metal wastes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-0017-7

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