The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary cocktail: Chicxulub impact triggers margin collapse and extensive sediment gravity flows

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 331-334

  Bralower, Timothy J ^a   Paull, Charles K ^a   Leckie, R Mark ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES;

CHICXULUB IMPACT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DERIVED MATERIALS; GRAVITY FLOWS; GULF OF MEXICO; MICROFOSSILS; SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOW;

SEDIMENTS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; GRAVITY FLOW; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOLOGY; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; TRIGGER MECHANISM; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF CAMPECHE; CARIBBEAN SEA; CHICXULUB CRATER; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 0031597346     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0331:TCTBCC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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