The Chesapeake Bay bolide impact: A convulsive event in Atlantic Coastal Plain evolution

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 45-90

  Poag, C Wylie ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolide impact; Chesapeake Bay; Crater; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BOLIDE IMPACT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CRATER; EOCENE; IMPACT EVENT; IMPACT STRUCTURE; STRATIGRAPHY;

USA, CHESAPEAKE BAY;

EID: 0030753226     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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