Impact ejecta and carbonate sequence in the eastern sector of the Chicxulub crater

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 801-810

  Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jaime ^a   Chavez Aguirre, Jose Maria ^b   Pérez Cruz, Ligia ^a   De la Rosa, Jose Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Centro Nacional Alterno   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chicxulub crater; Impact ejecta; Mexico; Multi ring crater; Sedimentary cover; Yucatan peninsular

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CRATER; DEPOSITION; EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; SINKHOLE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; YUCATAN;

EID: 57049165378     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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