A dual-layer Chicxulub ejecta sequence with shocked carbonates from the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, Demerara Rise, western Atlantic

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1180-1204

  Schulte, P ^a   Deutsch, A ^b   Salge, T ^c   Berndt, J ^b   Kontny, A ^d   MacLeod, K G ^e   Neuser, R D ^f   Krumm, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c BRUKER AXS GMBH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CARBONATE ROCK; CRETACEOUS; EJECTA; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPHERULE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DEMERARA RISE;

SPHERULES;

EID: 58549085746     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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