Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Morphology, crater fill, and relevance for impact structures on Mars

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1613-1624

  Horton Jr , J Wright ^a   Ormö, Jens ^b   Powars, David S ^a   Gohn, Gregory S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CRATER; FLUIDIZATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMPACTITE; TROUGH;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750600570     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00439.x     Document Type: Article

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