Extraterrestrial impact events: The record in the rocks and the stratigraphic column

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 5-23

  Grieve, Richard A F ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT; MARKER HORIZON; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; SIDEROPHILE ANOMALY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0030863242     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00058-8     Document Type: Article

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