Platinum group elements in impactites of the ICDP Chicxulub drill core Yaxcopoil-1: Are there traces of the projectile?

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1009-1016

  Tagle, Roald ^a   Erzinger, Jörg ^b   Hecht, Lutz ^a   Schmitt, Ralf Thomas ^a   Stöffler, Dieter ^b   Claeys, Philippe ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; GULF OF MEXICO; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

EID: 3943057392     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00942.x     Document Type: Article

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