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Asteroid Impacts and Their Geological Consequences

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The Puchezh-Katunki Impact Crater

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A review of available data on the impact cratering in the Solar System is presented. Most of data have been collected during robotic space missions to the Moon and other terrestrial planets. The main attention is attracted to morphology and morphometry of impact craters, comparable is size with the Puchezh-Katunki structure. All these craters have clearly visible central mound. Crater’s depth-diameter relations on planetary bodies with various surface gravity accelerations demonstrate that the simple-to-complex transitional crater diameter increases with decreasing of the surface gravity. The original depth of the Puchezh-Katunki structure and the presence of the central uplift well fit general trends, observed for impact craters on all planetary bodies of the terrestrial type.

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  1. Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Leninsky Prospect 38-1, 117939, Moscow, Russia

    Boris A. Ivanov

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  1. A. P. Karpinsky All-Russia Institute of Geological Research (VSEGEI), St. Petersburg, Russia

    Victor L. Masaitis

  2. A. P. Karpinsky All-Russia Institute of Geological Research (VSEGEI), St. Petersburg, Russia

    Mikhail V. Naumov

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Ivanov, B.A. (2020). Asteroid Impacts and Their Geological Consequences. In: Masaitis, V., Naumov, M. (eds) The Puchezh-Katunki Impact Crater. Impact Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32043-0_6

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