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Together with geological/geophysical studies and laboratory-scale experiments numerical simulations of impacts contribute a great deal to our knowledge of the cratering process. Whereas field studies give information about target conditions and final crater configuration, numerical modeling allow us to follow the evolving process in time and to reconstruct several important features not surviving after the cessation of the impact event and later time.

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  1. Institute of the Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Valery Shuvalov

  2. Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, NO-0316, Oslo, Norway

    Henning Dypvik & Filippos Tsikalas

  3. Eni Norge AS, NO-4064, Stavanger, Norway

    Filippos Tsikalas

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    Filippos Tsikalas

  2. Dept. Geology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Henning Dypvik

  3. (NGU), Geological Survey Norway, Trondheim, Norway

    Morten Smelror

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Shuvalov, V., Dypvik, H., Tsikalas, F. (2010). The Impact Dynamics. In: Tsikalas, F., Dypvik, H., Smelror, M. (eds) The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences. Impact Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88260-2_7

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