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Airbursts and Cratering Impacts
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Airbursts and Cratering Impacts

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 534 7 9 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 8
Documents by Best Scientists*: 10
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
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Top Publications

  • Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 2: Additional evidence supporting the catastrophic destruction of this prehistoric village by a cosmic airburst ~12,800 years ago

    (2023)
    11 Citations
  • Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 3: Comet airbursts triggered major climate change 12,800 years ago that initiated the transition to agriculture

    (2023)
    9 Citations
  • Microstructures in shocked quartz: linking nuclear airbursts and meteorite impacts

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 1: Shock-fractured quartz grains support 12,800-year-old cosmic airburst at the Younger Dryas onset

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Platinum, shock-fractured quartz, microspherules, and meltglass widely distributed in Eastern USA at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka)

    (2024)
    5 Citations
  • Modeling airbursts by comets, asteroids, and nuclear detonations: shock metamorphism, meltglass, and microspherules

    (2024)
    4 Citations
  • An Extraterrestrial Pt Anomaly during the Late Glacial-Younger Dryas: Viso Massif (Italy and France)

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • Modeling how a Powerful Airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • Kaş Bay: Evidence of a 20 km-diameter complex impact structure on the Turkey-Greece frontier

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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