Coastal landsliding and catastrophic sedimentation triggered by Cretaceous-Tertiary bolide impact: A Pacific margin example?

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 687-690

  Busby, Cathy J ^a   Yip, Grant ^a   Blikra, Lars ^a   Renne, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Tertiary; Impacts; Mass wasting; Paleovalley

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC SHOCKING;

GRAVEL; LANDSLIDES; LIQUEFACTION; SAND; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

COASTAL ZONES;

BOLIDE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT; MASS WASTING; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMICITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036693044     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0687:CLACST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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