Quench textures in altered spherules from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary layer at Agost and Caravaca, SE Spain

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 137-147

  Martinez Ruiz F ^a,b   Ortega Huertas, M ^c   Palomo, I ^c   Acquafredda, P ^d  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

C cores; Cretaceous Tertiary boundary; Diagenesis; Spherules; Textures

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DIAGENESIS; SPHERULES; TEXTURES;

SPAIN;

EID: 0031396241     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(97)00057-2     Document Type: Article

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