Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Masaitis, Victor L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Impact Studies,
• Subjects: Geology.; Mineral resources.; Geophysics.; Geochemistry.; Mineral Resources.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This book highlights the most prominent research on the Popigai meteorite crater (Siberia, Russia), the 6th largest known impact structure in the world. Not only does the crater have a diameter of roughly 100 km, it is also an estimated 35.7 million years old. This monograph is an updated, extended...