Impact Craters
Links
Lonar Crater
A 2km diameter impact crater in India. Background information, tourism, scientific literature, student guide.
A 'Smoking Gun' for Dinosaur Extinction
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/features/chicxulub.cfm
NASA JPL article on the Chicxulub crater. An image from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission shows an elevation feature of the crater. The article gives background information and interpretation of the image.
Terrestrial Impact Craters
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm
Background information, images, list of craters, references.
Impact Structures
http://www.impact-structures.com/
Geology, geophysics, and petrology of impact structures (meteorite impact craters) with special focus on the Azuara and Rubielos de la Cérida impact structures (Spain)
Impact Parameters
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
Online calculator for cratering effects of hypothetical asteroid impacts.
Solar System Collisions
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact.html
Online calculator for effects of asteroid impact.
Terrestrial Impact Investigations
http://www.wits.ac.za/geosciences/impact.htm
Images and descriptions of craters in Africa, research activities of the terrestrial impact cratering research group of the University of the Witwatersrand.
Traces of Catastrophe
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/CB-954/CB-954.intro.html
Online book. Detailed introduction and overview of impact processes, crater formation, and shock metamorphism.