New surveys of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure suggest melt pockets and target-structure effect

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 417-420

  Shah, Anjana K ^a   Brozena, John ^a   Vogt, Peter ^a   Daniels, David ^b   Plescia, Jeffrey ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Gravity surveys; Impact craters; Magnetic surveys

Indexed keywords

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CRATERS; MELT FRAGMENTS; REMAGNETIZATION;

GRAVITATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MELTING; MORPHOLOGY; ROCKS;

TECTONICS;

GRAVITY SURVEY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC SURVEY; REMAGNETIZATION; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 18944362488     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21213.1     Document Type: Article

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