Origin and emplacement of the impact formations at Chicxulub, Mexico, as revealed by the ICDP deep drilling at Yaxcopoil-1 and by numerical modeling

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1035-1067

  Stöffler, Dieter ^a   Artemieva, Natalya A ^b   Ivanov, Boris A ^b   Hecht, Lutz ^a   Kenkmann, Thomas ^a   Schmitt, Ralf Thomas ^a   Tagle, Roald Alberto ^a   Wittmann, Axel ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CRETACEOUS; EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 3943110343     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb01128.x     Document Type: Article

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