Popigai Impact Structure and Its Diamond-Bearing Rocks

Book Overview

Summarizes 15 years of fieldwork on Popigai impact crater and investigations of materials from 800 boreholes (up to 1500 m deep) with a total length of over 100,000 meters

Enriches readers' understanding of impact cratering processes and sheds new light on the formation of diamond-bearing impactites

Features a wealth of color photos of the Popigai impact structure and thin-sectioned samples of shock rocks

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030085929
• ISBN13: 9783030085926
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"