On the detection of the Wilkes Land impact crater

On the detection of the Wilkes Land impact crater

Abstract The definitive existence of a giant impact crater, two times larger than the Chixulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, from an extraterrestrial origin, 1.6 km beneath Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, remain controversial. Here, we use the latest high-resolution gravito-topographic geopotential...

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Main Authors: Jaroslav Klokočník, Jan Kostelecký, Aleš Bezděk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-08-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
Subjects:
East Antarctica
Wilkes Land anomaly
Impact crater/basin/mascon
Antarctic gravito-topographic model
Gravity aspects
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-018-0904-7

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