Composition of impact melt particles and the effects of post-impact alteration in suevitic rocks at the Yaxcopoil-1 drill core, Chicxulub crater, Mexico

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1169-1186

  Hecht, Lutz ^a   Wittmann, Axel ^a   Schmitt, Ralf Thomas ^a   Stöffler, Dieter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; SEAWATER;

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

EID: 3943087085     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb01135.x     Document Type: Article

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