Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sequence in the Cacarajicara Formation, western Cuba: An impact-related, high-energy, gravity-flow deposit

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 125-144

  Kiyokawa, Shoichi ^a   Tada, Ryuji ^b   Iturralde Vinent, Manuel ^c   Tajika, Eiichi ^b   Yamamoto, Shinji ^b   Oji, Tetsuo ^b   Nakano, Youichiro ^b   Goto, Kazuhisa ^b   Takayama, Hideo ^d   Garcia Delgado, Dora ^e   Diaz Otero, Consuelo ^e   Rojas Consuegra, Reinaldo ^c   Matsui, Takafumi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cuba   (Cuba)

^d NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^e Instituto de Geologia y Paleontologia La Habana   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; LAMINAR FLOW; LIME;

CHICXULUB IMPACT; CONCENTRATED FLOW; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEEP-WATER CARBONATES; HIGH-ENERGY FLOWS; HYPERCONCENTRATED FLOW; PLATFORM MARGINS; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CALCARENITE; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CRATERING; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GRAVITY; GRAVITY FLOW; HIGH ENERGY ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCURRENT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; CUBA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 0042735722     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.125     Document Type: Article

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