Evidence for coeval late triassic terrestrial impacts from the Rochechouart (France) meteorite crater

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Carporzen, Laurent ^a   Gilder, Stuart A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIZATION; METEORITES; TECTONICS;

ANTIPODALS; PALEOMAGNETIC POLE; REVERSE POLARITIES; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTIONS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CRATER; EURASIAN PLATE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIZATION; METEORITE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDERING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRIASSIC;

CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HAUTE-VIENNE; LIMOUSIN; MANICOUAGAN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; ROCHECHOUART CRATER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34047214033     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027356     Document Type: Article

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