Dating impact craters: Palaeogeographic versus isotopic and stratigraphic methods - A brief case study

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 586-590

  Schmieder, Martin ^a   Buchner, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dating; Impact structure; Marine impact; Palaeogeography

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES;

CRATER FORMATION; DATING; IMPACT STRUCTURES; MARINE IMPACT; MIDDLE JURASSIC; MULTIPLE IMPACT; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC AGE;

STRATIGRAPHY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRATER; DATING METHOD; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; TRIASSIC;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 46749123089     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808005049     Document Type: Article

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