Age of the Guatemala breccias around the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: relationships with the asteroid impact on the Yucatan

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-53

  Fourcade, Éric ^a   Rocchia, Robert ^b   Gardin, Silvia ^a   Bellier, Jean Pierre ^a   Debrabant, Pierre ^c   Masure, Edwige ^a   Robin, Eric ^b   Pop, Wilmer Toni ^d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; REWORKING; TEKTITE;

GUATEMALA;

EID: 0032128681     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80017-7     Document Type: Article

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