Crystalline-rock ejecta and shocked minerals of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, USGS-NASA Langley core, Hampton, Virginia, with supplemental constraints on the age of impact

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1688, 2006, Pages

  Horton Jr , J Wright ^a   Izett, Glen A ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE DRILLING; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FELDSPAR; GEOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; QUARTZ; SAND; SEDIMENTS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COASTAL PLAIN; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEFORMATION; EJECTA; EOCENE; FELDSPAR; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MINERAL; QUARTZ; RHYOLITE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846781621     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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