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Impact-induced Tectonics

Impact-Induced Tectonics is a tectonic process characterized by the deformation of planetary lithospheres resulting directly from the mechanical stresses generated by hypervelocity impact events, distinguishing it from tectonics driven by endogenic or tidal forces.

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Proximal Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Impact Deposits in the Caribbean

A. R. Hildebrand, W. V. Boynton · Science · 1990 · 173 citations

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Sequence and mechanisms of deformation around the Hellas and Isidis Impact Basins on Mars

R. W. Wichman, P. H. Schultz · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1989 · 164 citations

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Vredefort Ring Structure: Meteorite Impact Scar?

Robert S. Dietz · The Journal of Geology · 1961 · 132 citations

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Integrated geophysical modelling of a giant, complex impact structure: anatomy of the Vredefort Structure, South Africa

Herbert Henkel, W. U. Reimold · Tectonophysics · 1998 · 121 citations

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An episodic slab-rollback model for the origin of the Tharsis rise on Mars: Implications for initiation of local plate subduction and final unification of a kinematically linked global plate-tectonic network on Earth

Anqi Yin · Lithosphere · 2012 · 121 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. WU
    W. U. Reimold

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    7 publications · 407 citations

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  2. HH
    Herbert Henkel

    Geological Survey of Sweden, Sweden

    4 publications · 213 citations

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  3. RL
    Roger L. Gibson

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    2 publications · 176 citations

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  4. RD
    Runé Dietz

    Aarhus University, Denmark

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  5. HD
    Hongping Deng

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    1 publications · 61 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    475 citations

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Stockholm, Sweden

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    213 citations

  3. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    99 citations

  4. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    420 citations

  5. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    107 citations

  6. University of Münster

    Münster, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    108 citations

  7. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  8. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    77 citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 4 publications · 300 citations

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  2. Nature

    3 publications · 158 citations

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  3. Icarus

    3 publications · 96 citations

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  4. Meteoritics and Planetary Science

    3 publications · 113 citations

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  5. Tectonophysics

    2 publications · 139 citations

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