Shatter cone and microscopic shock-alteration evidence for a post-Paleoproterozoic terrestrial impact structure near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 290-299

  Fackelman, Siobhan P ^a   Morrow, Jared R ^b   Koeberl, Christian ^c   McElvain, Thornton H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

New Mexico, USA; Santa Fe impact structure; shatter cones; shock metamorphism; terrestrial impact structure

Indexed keywords

PALEOPROTEROZOIC CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; SHATTER CONES; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; TERRESTRIAL IMPACT STRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PETROGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIFURCATION; CRATER; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; PETROGRAPHY; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROTEROZOIC; SHATTER CONE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; THERMAL ALTERATION;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA FE [NEW MEXICO]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44649120778     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.033     Document Type: Article

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