edited by Gordon R. Osinski, Western University London, Ontario, Elisabetta Pierazzo, Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, Arizona.
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xiii, 316 pages :
ساير جزييات
illustrations (some color) ;
ابعاد
28 cm
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Tucson mispelled on title page.
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
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.