Lonar Impact Crater, India: the Best-Preserved Terrestrial Hypervelocity Impact Crater in a Basaltic Terrain as a Potential Global Geopark

Lonar Impact Crater is a simple meteorite impact crater carved out on the ~ 65 Ma old Deccan tholeiitic flood basalts. The crater, though scoured in a basaltic terrain, is still preserved in its most pristine form, with a central crater lake. The geomorphology, geochemistry, geochronology, hydrology...

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Autores principales: R. Chandran, Saranya, James, S., Aswathi, J., Padmakumar, Devika, Kumar, R. B. Binoj, Chavan, Anil, Bhore, Vivek, Kajale, Krishna, Bhandari, Subhash, Sajinkumar, K. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9702779/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12371-022-00767-9

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