Antipodal hotspots and bipolar catastrophes: Were oceanic large-body impacts the cause?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 13-27

  Hagstrum, Jonathan T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipodal focusing of seismic energy; Global mass extinctions; Hotspots; Large igneous provinces; Large body impacts

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

ANTIPODAL HOTSPOTS; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES (LIP); OCEANIC HEMISPHERE; SEISMIC ENERGY;

VOLCANOES;

HOT SPOT; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MASS EXTINCTION;

EID: 22144492199     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.020     Document Type: Article

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