mikheeva_v2.pdf489.57 KB

In order to explain the process of forming the outer rings of an impact crater, a model of an underground explosion of an impactor penetrating into the target is proposed. Intense crushing of the surface rocks is explained by the effect of the primary compression wave if it propagates from...

mikheeva_6.pdf4.61 MB

A technique that allows by secondary signs finding and determining the size of impact craters with a diameter exceeding 5 kilometers, whose profile has been erased by erosion processes or hidden with sediment cover is proposed.