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Impact Breccias

Impact Breccias is a lithological rock unit formed predominantly by the mechanical fragmentation and subsequent cementation of pre-existing target rocks during hypervelocity meteorite impact events, distinguished from other breccias by its specific genesis in shock metamorphic environments associated with crater formation.

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Impact Breccia

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Publications

417

The geophysical signature of terrestrial impact craters

Mark Pilkington, R. A. F. Grieve · Reviews of Geophysics · 1992 · 388 citations

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Support for the Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis from Lunar Meteorite Impact Melt Ages

B. A. Cohen, T. D. Swindle, D. A. Kring · Science · 2000 · 331 citations

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A 2.023 Ga age for the Vredefort impact event and a first report of shock metamorphosed zircons in pseudotachylitic breccias and Granophyre

Sandra L. Kamo, W. U. Reimold, T. E. Krogh et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1996 · 329 citations

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Progressive metamorphism and classification of shocked and brecciated crystalline rocks at impact craters

D. Stöffler · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1971 · 279 citations

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New links between the Chicxulub impact structure and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

V. L. Sharpton, G. Brent Dalrymple, Luis E. Marín et al. · Nature · 1992 · 276 citations

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Authors

1.2K

  1. WU
    W. U. Reimold

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    43 publications · 2K citations

    27

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  2. CK
    Christian Koeberl

    University of Vienna, Austria

    42 publications · 1.6K citations

    24

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  3. GR
    G. R. Osinski

    Western University, Canada

    21 publications · 918 citations

    15

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  4. DA
    D. A. Kring

    Lunar and Planetary Institute, United States

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

    15

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  5. DS
    D. Stöffler

    Museum für Naturkunde, Germany

    14 publications · 1.3K citations

    14

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Institutions

442

  1. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    24 h-index

    60 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    22 h-index

    57 publications

    3.4K citations

  3. Lunar and Planetary Institute

    Houston, United States

    22 h-index

    38 publications

    2.3K citations

  4. Johnson Space Center

    Houston, United States

    21 h-index

    45 publications

    2.8K citations

  5. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    20 h-index

    50 publications

    2.3K citations

  6. Museum für Naturkunde

    Berlin, Germany

    20 h-index

    62 publications

    3K citations

  7. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    19 h-index

    48 publications

    2K citations

  8. University of Münster

    Münster, Germany

    18 h-index

    43 publications

    1.8K citations

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Venues

  1. Meteoritics and Planetary Science

    155 publications · 6.3K citations

    43

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 33 publications · 2.2K citations

    28

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  3. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

    22 publications · 1.1K citations

    19

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  4. Science

    19 publications · 2K citations

    17

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  5. Meteoritics

    18 publications · 863 citations

    15

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