Stable isotope record of post-impact fluid activity in the core of the Yaxcopoil-1 borehole, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 384, Issue , 2005, Pages 223-238

  Zurcher, Lukas ^a   Kring, David A ^a   Barton, Mark D ^b   Dettman, David ^b   Rollog, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicxulub impact crater; Fluid sources; Hydrothermal paragenesis; Mineral compositions; Saline oil field brine; Stable isotopes; Yaxcopoil 1 impactite sequence

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BOREHOLES; CALCITE; CARBON; FELDSPAR; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; LIME; LIMESTONE; MINERALOGY; OIL FIELDS; POTASSIUM ALLOYS; SILICATES; SODIUM ALLOYS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CHICXULUB IMPACT; FLUID SOURCES; HYDROTHERMAL PARAGENESIS; MINERAL COMPOSITION; OIL FIELD BRINES; STABLE ISOTOPES; YAXCOPOIL-1 IMPACTITE SEQUENCE;

METEOR IMPACTS;

BOREHOLE; CALCITE; CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; FELDSPAR; FLUID INCLUSION; HALITE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; KEROGEN; LIMESTONE; METAMORPHISM; OXIDATION; PLAGIOCLASE; SILICATE; SMECTITE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 36448978092     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2384-1.223     Document Type: Article

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