Deep drilling into the Chesapeake Bay impact structure

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5884, 2008, Pages 1740-1745

  Gohn, G S ^a   Koeberl, C ^b   Miller, K G ^c   Reimold, W U ^d   Browning, J V ^c   Cockell, C S ^e   Horton Jr , J W ^a   Kenkmann, T ^d   Kulpecz, A A ^c   Powars, D S ^a   Sanford, W E ^a   Voytek, M A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; DEEP DRILLING; EOCENE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; BIOSPHERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; DRILL; HYDROLOGY; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PETROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRESTRIAL SURFACE WATERS;

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HEAT; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TIME; VIRGINIA;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 46449110214     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158708     Document Type: Article

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