Slow Impacts on Strong Targets Bring on the Heat

Abstract An important new paper by Kurosawa and Genda (2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076285) reports a previously overlooked source of heating in low velocity meteorite impacts. Plastic deformation of the pressure‐strengthened rocks behind the shock front dissipates energy, which appears as he...

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Main Authors: H. J. Melosh, B. A. Ivanov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-03-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2018GL077726
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