Age and effects of the Odessa meteorite impact, western Texas, USA

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 945-948

  Holliday, Vance T ^a   Kring, David A ^b   Mayer, James H ^b   Goble, Ronald J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact; Meteorite; Odessa; Southern High Plains

Indexed keywords

ODESSA METEORITE CRATERS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; TEXAS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SILT; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

IMPACT STRUCTURE; METEORITE;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 29144482569     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21884.1     Document Type: Article

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