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A model of kimberlite pipe formation after the collision of a comet with the Earth at an angle to the horizon

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A model of kimberlite pipe formation after the collision of a comet with the Earth at an angle to the horizon is proposed and studied. The proposed shock-wave model allows one to determine the pipe geometry according to initial conditions.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    V. M. Gendugov & E. A. Sagomonyan

  2. Department of Higher Mathematics, Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering, ulitsa Semenovskaya 38, Moscow, 107023, Russia

    S. I. Borodina

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  1. V. M. Gendugov
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Correspondence to V. M. Gendugov.

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Gendugov. E.A. Sagornonyan. S.I. Borodina. 2014, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Matematika. Mekhanika, 2014, Vol. 69. No. 6. pp. 65–68.

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Gendugov, V.M., Sagomonyan, E.A. & Borodina, S.I. A model of kimberlite pipe formation after the collision of a comet with the Earth at an angle to the horizon. Moscow Univ. Mech. Bull. 69, 139–142 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S002713301406003X

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