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impact craters and their identification - Chapter 1
Impact Craters and Their Identification
- Robert Beauford, PhD
[Note: Please understand that this is an unfinished work, and that this website is perpetually under construction. I strongly encourage and welcome critiques and suggested refinements by qualified researchers working in impact crater research.]
Chapter 1 - Introduction to impact craters
Chapter 2 - What makes a 'confirmed' crater?
Chapter 4 - High-pressure mineral polymorphs
Chapter 5 - Grain-scale evidence of impact origin
Chapter 6 - Impactor identification
Chapter 7 - Crater morphology - simple and complex craters
Chapter 8 - Breccias, melts, and other impactites
Chapter 9 - Approaches to recognizing small impact craters
Chapter 10 - Pseudo-impacts and Crater-like structures
Chapter 11 - Glossary of impact astrogeology terms
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