A deep drillcore from the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa: Petrography, geochemistry, and constraints on the crater size

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 221-232

  Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^a   Armstrong, Richard A ^b   Koeberl, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Absolute ages; Catastrophes; Cretaceous; Granophyre; Impact craters; Impact features; Jurassic; SHRIMP data

Indexed keywords

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MASS EXTINCTION; PETROGRAPHY; SHRIMP DATING; SIZE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036324441     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00658-1     Document Type: Article

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