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Originally Posted by John T
Do these experiments performed by Dan Durna also reveal various aspects of typical crater morphology such as circularity, central peaks, terraced walls, flat floors and other complex features?
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I don't know about Durna, but the features you asked about were all recreated in Laboratory cratering experiments about 40 years ago. See
Some Results Deduced from Simulation of Lunar Craters, P.F. Sabaneyev, IAU Symposium 14,
The Moon, pp. 419-432, 1962. You can download the paper as a PDF file, or look at the scanned page images. Central peak, terraced slopes, rays, all there. Figure 1, which strikingly resembles the lunar crater Copernicus, is actually a picture of a simulated crater.
There are still journal papers on crater simulation, but very little that discusses these features, since they are "old news". There are some text books I have seen that cover this stuff, but I can't remember specifics at the moment.