Post-impact carbonate deposition in the Chicxulub impact crater region, Yucatan Platform, Mexico

Current Science

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 248-252

  Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jaime ^a   Pérez Cruz, Ligia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chicxulub impact crater; Cretaceous Palaeogene boundary; Magnetostratigraphy; Stable isotope stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949100674     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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