Geochemical and petrographic characteristics of impactites and Cretaceous target rocks from the Yaxcopoil-1 borehole, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico: Implications for target composition

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1513-1536

  Tuchscherer, Martin G ^a   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^b   Gibson, Roger L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; PETROGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; GULF OF MEXICO; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

EID: 29244476876     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00415.x     Document Type: Article

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