Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials

Impacts play a huge role in Solar System evolution. Signatures of the early phases of planetary compaction were identified in meteorites, which implied impacts were the driver for asteroid compaction. Traces of impacting projectiles have also been located at sites all over the world in impact ejecta...

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Main Author: Forman, Lucy Victoria
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55101
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description Impacts play a huge role in Solar System evolution. Signatures of the early phases of planetary compaction were identified in meteorites, which implied impacts were the driver for asteroid compaction. Traces of impacting projectiles have also been located at sites all over the world in impact ejecta layers. Here, ejecta from a catastrophic impact 65 Ma ago is examined to understand the process of global ejecta processing and dispersion.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-551012017-08-17T01:18:14Z Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials Forman, Lucy Victoria Impacts play a huge role in Solar System evolution. Signatures of the early phases of planetary compaction were identified in meteorites, which implied impacts were the driver for asteroid compaction. Traces of impacting projectiles have also been located at sites all over the world in impact ejecta layers. Here, ejecta from a catastrophic impact 65 Ma ago is examined to understand the process of global ejecta processing and dispersion. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55101 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Forman, Lucy Victoria
Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials
title Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials
title_full Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials
title_fullStr Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials
title_full_unstemmed Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials
title_short Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials
title_sort impactors and the impacted: analytical techniques to identify and understand the impact evolution of extraterrestrial materials
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55101