Impact effects and regional tectonic insights: Backstripping the Chesapeake Bay impact structure

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 327-330

  Hayden, Travis ^a   Kominz, Michelle ^a   Powars, David S ^b   Edwards, Lucy E ^b   Miller, Kenneth G ^c   Browning, James V ^c   Kulpecz, Andrew A ^c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backstripping; Chesapeake Bay; Eocene; Impact processes; Passive margin; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BACKSTRIPPING; EOCENE; IMPACT PROCESSES; PASSIVE MARGIN;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

TECTONICS;

DEPOSITION; EOCENE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449173977     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24408A.1     Document Type: Article

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