Chicxulub: Testing for post-impact hydrothermal input into the Tertiary ocean

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1223-1231

  Rowe, A J ^a   Wilkinson, J J ^a   Coles, B J ^a   Morgan, J V ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IMPACT STRUCTURE; SEAWATER; TERTIARY;

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

EID: 3943111707     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb01138.x     Document Type: Article

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