Cretaceous-tertiary (Chicxulub) impact angle and its consequences

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 963-967

  Schultz, Peter H ^a   D'Hondt, Steven ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC SIGNATURE; CHICXULUB IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; IMPACT ANGLES; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBLIQUE IMPACT; PLANETARY SURFACES;

GEOLOGY;

BOLIDE; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT ANGLE; IMPACT EVENT; MASS EXTINCTION;

CHICXULUB; MEXICO; YUCATAN;

EID: 0030434399     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0963:CTCIAA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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