Where have all the craters gone?
Where have all the craters gone? Geological Society
of America, ScienceDaily, May 27, 2014
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140527154715.htm
The paper is:
Johnson, B. C., and T. J. Bowling, 2014, Where have
all the craters gone? Earth's bombardment history and
the expected terrestrial cratering record. Geology.
First published online May 22, 2014, doi: 10.1130/G35754.1
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2014/05/21/G35754.1
An older and related article is:
Tiny 'spherules' reveal details about Earth's asteroid
impacts, Purdue University, April 25, 2012
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2012/120425MeloshImpacts.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120425140316.htm
The paper is:
Johnson, B. C., and H. J. Melosh, 2012, Impact
spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment
of Earth. Nature. vol. 485, no. 7396, pp. 75–77.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/nature10982.html
Yours,
Paul H.
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MikeG wrote:
>(Keep posting the links though - every
>now and then, one of the papers is free)
The abstract for the PDF of the Lunar and Planetary
Science Conference version of Johnson and Bowling
(2014) is at http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/2414.pdf
Th PDF file of Johnson and Melosh (2012) is at
http://211.144.68.84:9998/91keshi/Public/File/34/485-7396/pdf/nature10982.pdf
Yours,
Paul H.
