Use of platinum-group elements for impactor identification: Terrestrial impact craters and Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 57, Issue 15, 1993, Pages 3737-3748

  Evans, Noreen Joyce ^a   Gregoire, D C ^b   grieve, R A F ^b   Goodfellow, W D ^b   veizer, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT EVENT; IMPACTOR IDENTIFICATION; PGE;

EID: 0027837981     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(93)90152-M     Document Type: Article

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