40Ar/39Ar age of the Manson impact structure, Iowa, and correlative impact ejecta in the Crow Creek member of the Pierre Shale (Upper Cretaceous), South Dakota and Nebraska

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 361-376

  Izett, G A ^a   Cobban, W A ^b   Dalrymple, G B ^c   Obradovich, J D ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; FELDSPAR; GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMPACT STRUCTURES; LATE CRETACEOUS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; MASS EXTINCTION; POSTCRYSTALLIZATION; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

SHALE;

AMMONITE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; EJECTA; HEATING; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MELT INCLUSION; MICROCLINE; PRECAMBRIAN; SHALE; TSUNAMI; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

IOWA; NEBRASKA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0031814665     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0361:AAAOTM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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