High-resolution seismic-reflection image of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1688, 2006, Pages

  Catchings, Rufus D ^a   Powars, David S ^b   Gohn, Gregory S ^b   Goldman, Mark R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFRACTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EOCENE; GRANITE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TROUGH; WEATHERING PROFILE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 33846881394     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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