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Further analyses of Rio Cuarto impact glassInitial analyses of the geologic setting, petrology, and geochemistry of glasses recovered from within and around the elongate Rio Cuarto (RC) craters in Argentina focused on selected samples in order to document the general similarity with impactites around other terrestrial impact craters and to establish their origin. Continued analysis has surveyed the diversity in compositions for a range of samples, examined further evidence for temperature and pressure history, and compared the results with experimentally fused loess from oblique hypervelocity impacts. These new results not only firmly establish their impact origin but provide new insight on the impact process.
Document ID
19940016272
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Schultz, Peter H.
(Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Bunch, T. E.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA., United States)
Koeberl, C.
(Wien Univ. Austria)
Collins, W.
(Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: N-Z
Subject Category
Inorganic And Physical Chemistry
Accession Number
94N20745
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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