Selected Publications, Reports, and Reviews

Silber, Elizabeth A., Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Iyare Oseghae, Eloy Peña-Asensio, Mark Boslough, Rodney Whitaker, Christoph Pilger et al. "Multiparameter Constraints on Empirical Infrasound Period-yield Relations for Bolides and Implications for Planetary Defense." The Astronomical Journal 170, no. 1 (2025): 38. Link

Boslough, Mark, and Andy Bruno. "Misunderstandings about the Tunguska event, shock wave physics, and airbursts have resulted in misinterpretations of evidence at Tall el-Hammam." Scientific Reports 15, no. 1 (2025): 13869. Link

Bailey, Brin, Alexander N. Cohen, Sasha Egan, Philip Lubin, Ruitao Xu, Mark Boslough, Darrel Robertson et al. "Evaluating Short-warning Mitigation via Intentional Robust Disruption of a Hypothetical Impact of Asteroid 2023 NT1." The Astrophysical Journal 981, no. 181 (2025): 17pp. Link

Cohen, Alexander N., Philip Lubin, Darrel Robertson, Mark Boslough, Sasha Egan, Angela M. Stickle, Elizabeth A. Silber, Peter Meinhold, Brin Bailey, and Dharv Patel. "Asteroid disruption and deflection simulations for multi-modal planetary defense." Acta Astronautica 225 (2024): 960-967." Link

Holliday, Vance T., Tyrone L. Daulton, Patrick J. Bartlein, Mark B. Boslough, Ryan P. Breslawski, Abigail E. Fisher, Ian A. Jorgeson et al. "Rebuttal of Sweatman, Powell, and West's “Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis”." Earth-Science Reviews 258 (2024): 104961. Link

Boslough, Mark, and Vasily Titov. "Air-coupled tsunamis generated from impacts and airbursts: Our understanding before Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai." Acta Astronautica 222 (2024): 641-646. Link

Bailey, Brin, Alexander N. Cohen, Philip Lubin, Darrel Robertson, Mark Boslough, Sasha Egan, Elizabeth A. Silber, and Dharv Patel. "Optical and acoustic ground effects simulations from terminal defense asteroid disruption via the PI method." Acta Astronautica 221 (2024): 230-239. Link

Boslough, Mark. "The threat from cosmic flotsam." Physics Today 77, no. 7 (2024): 54-55. Link

van Ginneken, Matthias, Ralph P. Harvey, Steven Goderisc, Natalia Artemieva, Mark Boslough, Ryoga Maeda, Jérôme Gattacceca et al. "The identification of airbursts in the past: Insights from the BIT-58 layer." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 627 (2024): 118562. Link

Holliday, Vance T., Tyrone L. Daulton, Patrick J. Bartlein, Mark B. Boslough, Ryan P. Breslawski, Abigail E. Fisher, Ian A. Jorgeson et al. "Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)." Earth-Science Reviews 247 (2023): 104502. Link

Boslough M, Sodom meteor strike claims should be taken with a pillar of salt. Skeptical Inquirer 46(1) (2022); 10–14. Link

Hainaut, Olivier R., Jan T. Kleyna, Karen J. Meech, Mark Boslough, Marco Micheli, Richard Wainscoat, Marielle Dela Cruz, Jacqueline V. Keane, Devendra K. Sahu, and Bhuwan C. Bhatt. “Disintegration of active asteroid P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS).” Astronomy & Astrophysics 628 (2019): A48. Link

Unsalan, Ozan, Peter Jenniskens, Qing‐Zhu Yin, Ersin Kaygisiz, Jim Albers, David L. Clark, Mikael Granvik et al. “The Sariçiçek howardite fall in Turkey: Source crater of HED meteorites on Vesta and impact risk of Vestoids.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, no. 5 (2019): 953-1008. Link

Boslough, Mark. “Uncertainty and risk at the catastrophe threshold.” Planetary Defense: Global Collaboration for Defending Earth from Asteroids and Comets (2019): 205-215. Link

Bowman, Daniel, Jonathan Lees, James Cutts, Attila Komjathy, Eliot Young, Kayla Seiffert, Mark Boslough, and Stephen Arrowsmith. “Geoacoustic observations on drifting balloon-borne sensors.” Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies: Challenges in Middle Atmosphere Dynamics and Societal Benefits (2019): 125-171. Link

Silber, Elizabeth A., Mark Boslough, Wayne K. Hocking, Maria Gritsevich, and Rodney W. Whitaker. “Physics of meteor generated shock waves in the earth’s atmosphere–a review.” Advances in Space Research 62, no. 3 (2018): 489-532. Link

Boslough, Mark, Stewart A Silling, Susan H Fischer, David E Cox, William B Vandermolen.”Shock-Induced Solid-State reactions in Powders: An Experimentally-Based Reassessment.” SAND2017-5297. Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories (2017). Link

Boslough, Mark. “Autonomous dynamic soaring.” In 2017 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-20. IEEE, 2017. Link

Spalding, Richard, John Tencer, William Sweatt, Benjamin Conley, Roy Hogan, Mark Boslough, GiGi Gonzales, and Pavel Spurný. "Photoacoustic sounds from meteors." Scientific reports 7, no. 1 (2017): 41251. Link

Boslough, Mark, Paul Chodas, Souheil Ezzedine, Barbara Jennings, and Bill Fogleman. “Physical and infrastructure modeling for the 2015 PDC asteroid threat exercise.” In 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-18. IEEE, 2016. Link

Young, Eliot F., Courtney Ballard, Kyle Garner, Michael Von Hendy, Peter Brown, Emily Dougherty, Martin Heaney et al. “Detection of infrasound disturbances from the Earth's stratosphere.” In 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2016. Link

Boslough, Mark. “Opportunity Knocks into Jupiter at 60 km/s.” Impactful Times: Memories of Shock Wave Research at Sandia National Laboratories (2016): 329-340. Link AltLink

Boslough, Mark, Barbara Jennings, Brad Carvey, and William Fogleman. “FEMA asteroid impact tabletop exercise simulations.” Procedia Engineering 103 (2015): 43-51. Link

Boslough, Mark, Kathleen Nicoll, Tyrone L. Daulton, Andrew C. Scott, Philippe Claeys, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Jennifer R. Marlon, and Patrick J. Bartlein. "Incomplete Bayesian model rejects contradictory radiocarbon data for being contradictory." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 49 (2015): E6722-E6722. Link

Seery, Bernard, Brent Barbee, Joseph Nuth, Luke Oman, Mark Boslough, Paul Miller, Catherine Plesko, and Robert Weaver. “Investigations of short warning time response options for hazardous near-Earth objects.” In 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-12. IEEE, 2015. Link

Boslough, Mark, Peter Brown, and Alan Harris. "Updated population and risk assessment for airbursts from near-earth objects (NEOs)." In 2015 IEEE aerospace conference, pp. 1-12. IEEE, 2015. Link

Harris, Alan W., Mark Boslough, Clark R. Chapman, Line Drube, and Patrick Michel. “Asteroid impacts and modern civilization: Can we prevent a catastrophe?.” Asteroids IV (2015): 835-854. Link

Boslough, Mark. "Airburst Modeling." Handbook of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense (2015): 665-692. Link

Ivey, Mark D., David G. Robinson, Mark B. Boslough, George A. Backus, Kara J. Peterson, Bart G. Van Bloemen Waanders, Laura P. Swiler, Darin M. Desilets, and Rhonda K. Reinert. "Arctic Climate Systems Analysis." Link

Boslough, Mark. “Impact decision support diagrams.” Acta Astronautica 103 (2014): 358-361. Link

Boslough, Mark. “Airburst warning and response.” Acta Astronautica 103 (2014): 370-375. Link

Holliday, Vance T., Todd Surovell, David J. Meltzer, Donald K. Grayson, and Mark Boslough. “The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: a cosmic catastrophe.” Journal of Quaternary Science 29, no. 6 (2014): 515-530. Link

Kring, David A., and Mark Boslough. “Chelyabinsk: Portrait of an asteroid airburst.” Physics Today 67, no. 9 (2014): 32-37. Link

Field Jr, Richard V., Paul Constantine, and Mark Boslough. "Statistical surrogate models for prediction of high-consequence climate change." International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification 3, no. 4 (2013). Link

Boslough, Mark. “Greenland Pt anomaly may point to noncataclysmic Cape York meteorite entry." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 52 (2013): E5035-E5035.  Link

Boslough, Mark. “Impact conclusions are a restatement of assumptions with literature misinterpretations.” SAND2013-10324J. Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories (2013). Link

Brown, P. G., J. D. Assink, L. Astiz, R. Blaauw, M. B. Boslough, J. Borovicka, N. Brachet et al. "A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors." NATURE 503 (2013): 14. Link

Boslough, Mark. “Faulty protocols yield contaminated samples, unconfirmed results.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 18 (2013): E1651-E1651. Link

Boslough, Mark, Alan W. Harris, Clark Chapman, and David Morrison. “Younger Dryas impact model confuses comet facts, defies airburst physics.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences110, no. 45 (2013): E4170-E4170. Link

Boslough, Mark. “Inconsistent impact hypotheses for the Younger Dryas.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, no. 34 (2012): E2241-E2241. Link

Boslough, Mark, Kathleen Nicoll, Vance Holliday, T. L. Daulton, D. Meltzer, N. Pinter, A. C. Scott et al. “Arguments and evidence against a Younger Dryas impact event.” Climates, landscapes, and civilizations 198 (2012): 13-26. Link

Backus, George et. al.,2012. “Risk Assessment of Climate Systems for National Security” Sandia National Laboratories Technical Report SAND2012-10554 (October): 66-81 Link

Hueso, Ricardo, A. Wesley, C. Go, S. Pérez-Hoyos, M. H. Wong, L. N. Fletcher, A. Sánchez-Lavega et al. "First Earth-based detection of a superbolide on Jupiter." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 721, no. 2 (2010): L129. Link

Zak, Bernard, Brett Bader, Ray Bambha, Hope Michelsen, Mark Boslough, and Andrew R. Jacobson. "Reduction of uncertainties in remote measurement of greenhouse gas fluxes." In 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2010. Link

de Pater, Imke, Leigh N. Fletcher, Santiago Pérez-Hoyos, Heidi B. Hammel, Glenn S. Orton, Michael H. Wong, Statia Luszcz-Cook, Agustin Sánchez-Lavega, and Mark Boslough. "A multi-wavelength study of the 2009 impact on Jupiter: Comparison of high resolution images from Gemini, Keck and HST." Icarus 210, no. 2 (2010): 722-741. Link

Jenniskens, Pet al, Muawia H. Shaddad, D. Numan, S. Elsir, A. M. Kudoda, Michael E. Zolensky, L. Le et al. "The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3." Nature 458, no. 7237 (2009): 485-488. Link

Boslough, M. B. E., and D. A. Crawford. "Low-altitude airbursts and the impact threat." International Journal of Impact Engineering 35.12 (2008): 1441-1448. Link

Boslough, Mark, M. Ivey, M. Taylor, B. Zak, and G. Backus. "The Arctic as a test case for an assessment of climate impacts on national security." Sandia Report SAND2008-7006(2008). Link

Osinski, G.R., Kieniewicz, J., Smith, J.R., Boslough, M.B., Eccleston, M., Schwarcz, H.P., Kleindienst, M.R., Haldemann, A.F. and Churcher, C.S., 2008. The Dakhleh Glass: Product of an impact airburst or cratering event in the Western Desert of Egypt?. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 43(12), pp.2089-2107. Link

Boslough, Mark, James Sprigg, George Backus, Mark Taylor, Laura McNamara, Joy Fujii, Kathryn Murphy, Leonard Malczynski, and Rhonda Reinert. "Climate change effects on international stability: A white paper." SAND2004-5973. Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories (2004). Link

Boslough, Mark BE. Autonomous dynamic soaring platform for distributed mobile sensor arrays. No. SAND2002-1896. Sandia National Lab.(SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Lab.(SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States), 2002. Link

Boslough, Mark Massively Parallel Global Climate Model for Paleoclimate Applications, SANDN2002-1925 (2002). Link

Fawcett, Peter J., and Mark BE Boslough. "Climatic effects of an impact‐induced equatorial debris ring." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 107, no. D15 (2002): ACL-2. Link

Boslough, Mark B.E., “Impact-Induced Climate Change Due to an Orbiting Debris Ring.” International Space Development Conference: Albuquerque, New Mexico (2001): Link

Myers, S. A., R. T. Cygan, R. A. Assink, and M. B. Boslough. "29 Si MAS NMR relaxation study of shocked Coconino sandstone from Meteor Crater, Arizona." Physics and chemistry of minerals 25 (1998): 313-317. Link

Wacker, J. F., A. R. Hildebrand, P. Brown, D. Crawford, M. Boslough, E. Chael, D. Revelle et al. "The Juancheng and El Paso Superbolides of February 15 and October 9, 1997: Preatmospheric Meteoroid Sizes." Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 33, p. A160 33 (1998): A160 (abstract)

Boslough, Mark BE, and David A. Crawford. "Shoemaker‐Levy 9 and Plume‐forming Collisions on Earth." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 822.1 (1997): 236-282. Link

Boslough, Mark BE, and G. Randall Gladstone. "An impact plume model for atmospheric holes in the FUV dayglow." Geophysical research letters 24, no. 24 (1997): 3117-3120. Link

Boslough, M. B., E. P. Chael, T. G. Trucano, D. A. Crawford, and D. L. Campbell. "Axial focusing of impact energy in the Earth's interior: A possible link to flood basalts and hotspots." New Developments Regarding the KT Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History, GSA Special Paper 307 (1996): pp 541-550. Link

Boslough, Mark B., David A. Crawford, Timothy G. Trucano, and Allen C. Robinson. "Numerical modeling of Shoemaker‐Levy 9 impacts as a framework for interpreting observations." Geophysical research letters 22, no. 13 (1995): 1821-1824. Link

Furnish, M. D. and M. B. Boslough, "Measuring Hugoniot, Reshock and Release Properties of Natural Snow and Simulants," Sandia Nat. Lab., Sandia Report SAND92-0985, Albuquerque, NM, February, (1996). Link

Furnish, M. D., M. B. Boslough, G. T. Gray III, and J. L. Remo. "Dynamical properties measurements for asteroid, comet and meteorite material applicable to impact modeling and mitigation calculations." International Journal of Impact Engineering 17, no. 1-3 (1995): 341-352. Link

Boslough, M. B., and D. A. Crawford. "Impact-generated atmospheric plumes: Observations on Jupiter and implications for Earth." (1996): 1187-1190. Link Hardcopy only

Crawford, D. A., and M. B. Boslough. "A Model of Meteoroid Atmospheric Entry with Implications for the NEO Hazard and the Impact of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 on Jupiter." In Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space V, pp. 81-87. 1996. Link

Boslough, M. B., and D. A. Crawford. "Impact-generated atmospheric plumes: The threat to satellites in low-earth orbit." In Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space V, pp. 88-94. 1996. Link

Boslough, M. B., E. P. Chael, T. G. Trucano, and D. A. Crawford. "Axial focusing of energy from a hypervelocity impact on Earth." International journal of impact engineering17, no. 1-3 (1995): 99-108. Link

Boslough, M. B., and D. A. Crawford. "The Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact plumes on Jupiter: Implications for threat to satellites in low-Earth orbit." NASA STI/Recon Technical Report: Proceedings of the Planetary Defense Workshop, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, May 22-26, 1995. N 96 (1995): 15248. Link

Crawford, D. A., M. B. Boslough, T. G. Trucano, and A. C. Robinson. "The impact of periodic comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter." International journal of impact engineering 17, no. 1-3 (1995): 253-262. Link

Boslough, Mark B., David A. Crawford, Allen C. Robinson, and Timothy G. Trucano. "Mass and penetration depth of Shoemaker‐Levy 9 fragments from time‐resolved photometry." Geophysical research letters 21, no. 14 (1994): 1555-1558. Link

Boslough, Mark B., David A. Crawford, Allen C. Robinson, and Timothy G. Trucano. "Watching for fireballs on Jupiter." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 75, no. 27 (1994): 305-310. Link

Crawford, David A., Mark B. Boslough, Timothy G. Trucano, and Allen C. Robinson. "The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter." Shock waves 4 (1994): 47-50. Link

Konrad, C. H., L. C. Chhabildas, M. B. Boslough, A. J. Piekutowski, K. L. Poormon, S. A. Mullin, and D. L. Littlefield. "Dependence of debris cloud formation on projectile shape." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 309, no. 1, pp. 1845-1848. American Institute of Physics, 1994. Link

Chhabildas, L. C., M. B. Boslough, W. D. Reinhart, and C. A. Hall. "Debris cloud characterization at impact velocities of 5 to 11 km/s." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 309, no. 1, pp. 1841-1844. American Institute of Physics, 1994. Link

Boslough, M. B., L. C. Chhabildas, W. D. Reinhart, C. A. Hall, J. M. Miller, R. Hickman, S. A. Mullin, and D. L. Littlefield. "PVDF gauge characterization of hypervelocity-impact-generated debris clouds." In AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics);(United States), vol. 309, no. CONF-921145-. 1994. Link

Assink, R. A., M. B. Boslough, and R. T. Cygan. "Power-Law Relaxation of Spin-12 Nuclei in Solids." Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Series A 106, no. 1 (1994): 116-118. Link

Boslough, M. B., and J. R. Asay. "Basic principles of shock compression." High-pressure shock compression of solids (1993): 7-42. Link

Chhabildas, Lalit C., and Mark B. Boslough. "Experimental technique to launch flier-plates representing orbital debris to hypervelocities." Space Debris Detection and Mitigation 1951 (1993): 112-117. Link

Boslough, M. B., J. A. Ang, L. C. Chhabildas, W. D. Reinhart, C. A. Hall, B. G. Cour-Palais, E. L. Christiansen, and J. L. Crews. "Hypervelocity testing of advanced shielding concepts for spacecraft against impacts to 10 km/s." International Journal of Impact Engineering 14, no. 1-4 (1993): 95-106. Link

Boslough, M.B., Bernold, L.E. and Horie, Y., 1992. Shock-treated lunar soil simulant: Preliminary Assessment as a Construction Material. In: R.C. Elphic and D.S. McKay, eds. Lunar and Planetary Inst., Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Lunar Resource Assessment. Santa Fe.pp.14–15. Link

Cygan, Randall T., Mark B. Boslough, and R. James Kirkpatrick. "NMR spectroscopy of experimentally shocked quartz and plagioclase feldspar powders." In IN: Proceedings of Lunar and Planetary Science, Volume 22; Conference, Houston, TX, Mar. 18-22, 1991 (A92-30851 12-91). Houston, TX, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1992, p. 127-136. Research supported by DNA., vol. 22, pp. 127-136. 1992. Link

Boslough, M. B. "Shock modification and chemistry and planetary geologic processes." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 19, no. 1 (1991): 101-130. Link

Boslough, M.B. “Postshock Spectral Radiance Measurements in Nickel and Nickel/Aluminum Powders.” Proceedings of the APS 1991 Topical Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, Williamsburg, VA, USA, June 17-20, 1991 Edited by: S.C. Schmidt et al. SAND—91-1197C. Link

Cygan, R. T., M. B. Boslough, and R. J. Kirkpatrick., “NMR Spectroscopy of Experimentally Shocked Silicate Mineral,” Shock Compression of Condensed Matter–1991. Link

Boslough, Mark B. "A thermochemical model for shock‐induced reactions (heat detonations) in solids." The Journal of chemical physics 92, no. 3 (1990): 1839-1848. Link

Cygan, R. T., M. B. Boslough, and R. J. Kirkpatrick. "NMR spectroscopy of experimentally shocked quartz-Shock wave barometry." In IN: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 20th, Houston, TX, Mar. 13-17, 1989, Proceedings (A90-33456 14-91). Houston, TX, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1990, p. 451-457., vol. 20, pp. 451-457. 1990. Link

Cygan, Randall T., William H. Casey, Mark B. Boslough, Henry R. Westrich, Martin J. Carr, and George R. Holdren Jr. "Dissolution kinetics of experimentally shocked silicate minerals." Chemical geology 78, no. 3-4 (1989): 229-244. Link

Boslough, Mark B., and Thomas J. Ahrens. "A sensitive time‐resolved radiation pyrometer for shock‐temperature measurements above 1500 K." Review of scientific instruments 60, no. 12 (1989): 3711-3716. Link AltLink

Boslough, M. B. "A thermochemical model for shock-induced chemical reactions in porous solids: analogs and contrasts to detonation." In Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Detonation, pp. 1199-1209. 1989. AltLink

Boslough, M.B. et al, “Causes and control of gas precompression effects on the 25-meter helium/air gun,” Technical Report (Sandia National Lab.(SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM, 1989). Link

Dodson, B. W., and M. B. Boslough. Techniques for recovery of shock-loaded samples. No. SAND-89-1964C; CONF-890812-41. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA), 1989. Link not available. Hardcopy only.

Boslough, Mark B. "Shock-induced chemical reactions in nickel-aluminum powder mixtures: radiation pyrometer measurements." Chemical physics letters 160, no. 5-6 (1989): 618-622. Link

Boslough, M. B. "Postshock temperatures in silica." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 93, no. B6 (1988): 6477-6484. Link

Boslough, Mark B., and Randall T. Cygan. "Shock-enhanced dissolution of silicate minerals and chemical weathering on planetary surfaces." In IN: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 18th, Houston, TX, Mar. 16-20, 1987, Proceedings (A89-10851 01-91). Cambridge and New York/Houston, TX, Cambridge University Press/Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1988, p. 443-453., vol. 18, pp. 443-453. 1988. Link

Holdren, G. R., W. H. Casey, H. R. Westrich, M. Carr, and M. Boslough. "Bulk dislocation densities and dissolution rates in a calcic plagioclase." (abstract) Chemical Geology 70, no. 1-2 (1988): 79.

Taylor, P. A., M.B. Boslough, and Y. Horie, Modeling of shock-induced chemistry in nickel-aluminum systems. SAND-87-0955C; CONF-870753-30 Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA), 1987. Link

Boslough, M. B. "Shock-induced solid-state chemical reactivity studies using time-resolved radiation pyrometry." International Journal of Impact Engineering 5, no. 1-4 (1987): 173-180. Link

Boslough, M. B., S. M. Rigden, and T. J. Ahrens. "Hugoniot equation of state of anorthite glass and lunar anorthosite." Geophysical Journal 84 (1986). Link AltLink

Boslough, Mark B., Thomas J. Ahrens, and Arthur C. Mitchell. "Shock temperatures in anorthite glass." Geophysical Journal International 84, no. 3 (1986): 475-489. Link AltLink AltAltLink

Graham, R. A., B. Morosin, Y. Horie, E. L. Venturini, M. Boslough, M. J. Carr, and D. L. Williamson. "Chemical synthesis under high pressure shock loading." Shock Waves in Condensed Matter (1986): 693-711. Link

Boslough, Mark B., and Thomas J. Ahrens. "Shock wave properties of anorthosite and gabbro." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 90, no. B9 (1985): 7814-7820. Link AltLink

Boslough, Mark B. "A model for time dependence in shock‐induced thermal radiation of light." Journal of applied physics 58, no. 9 (1985): 3394-3399. Link

Boslough, Mark B., Thomas J. Ahrens, and Arthur C. Mitchell. "Shock temperatures in CaO." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 89, no. B9 (1984): 7845-7851. Link AltLink

Boslough, M. B., and R. A. Graham. "Submicrosecond shock-induced chemical reactions in solids: first real-time observations." Chemical physics letters 121, no. 4-5 (1985): 446-452. Link

Nellis, W. J., Fo H. Ree, R. J. Trainor, A. C. Mitchell, and M. B. Boslough. "Equation of state and optical luminosity of benzene, polybutene, and polyethylene shocked to 210 GPa (2.1 Mbar)." The Journal of chemical physics 80, no. 6 (1984): 2789-2799. Link

Lange, Manfred A., Thomas J. Ahrens, and Mark B. Boslough. "Impact cratering and spall failure of gabbro." Icarus 58, no. 3 (1984): 383-395. Link AltLink

Boslough, M. B., and T. J. Ahrens. Particle velocity experiments in anorthosite and gabbro. No. NASA-CR-174158. 1984. Link

Boslough, Mark Bruce. Shock-wave properties and high-pressure equations of state of geophysically important materials. California Institute of Technology, 1984. Link

Weldon, Ray J., Warren M. Thomas, Mark B. Boslough, and Thomas J. Ahrens. "Shock‐induced color changes in nontronite: Implications for the Martian fines." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 87, no. B12 (1982): 10102-10114. Link AltLink

Boslough, M. B., and T. J. Ahrens. 1982. “A Method of Determining Points on the Principal Isentropes of Molecular Liquids”. In Shock Waves in Condensed Matter - 1981, 236–40. New York, NY: American Institute of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.33366. Link

Boslough, Mark B., Thomas J. Ahrens, Joana Vizgirda, Richard H. Becker, and Samuel Epstein. "Shock-induced devolatilization of calcite." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 61, no. 1 (1982): 166-170. Link AltLink

Ahrens, Thomas J., Mark B. Boslough, Warren G. Ginn, Mario S. Vassiliou, Manfred A. Lange, J. Peter Watt, Kenichi Kondo, Robert F. Svendsen, Sally M. Rigden, and Edward M. Stolper. "Shock wave apparatus for studying minerals at high pressure and impact phenomena on planetary surfaces." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 78, p. 631. 1982. Link AltLink

Boslough, M. B., R. J. Weldon, and T. J. Ahrens. "Impact-induced water loss from serpentine, nontronite and kernite." In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1980. Link AltLink

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