West Bijou Site Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Denver Basin, Colorado

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 59-68

  Barclay, Richard S ^a   Johnson, Kirk R ^a  

^a DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; Denver Basin; Extinction; Geochronology; Iridium; K T boundary

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; IRIDIUM; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MAMMALS; QUARTZ;

COLORADO; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DENVER BASIN; DISASTER RECOVERY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PARTS PER TRILLION; QUARTZ GRAINS; SHOCKED QUARTZ;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 37249072012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-0005-1.59     Document Type: Article

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