Megablocks and melt pockets in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure constrained by magnetic field measurements and properties of the Eyreville and Cape Charles cores

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 195-208

  Shah, Anjana K ^a   Daniels, David L ^b   Kontny, Agnes ^c   Brozena, John ^d  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; GRANITE; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; REFRACTION; SEISMOLOGY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC FIELD DATA; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SEISMIC REFRACTION DATA; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

CRATER; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949087715     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(10)     Document Type: Article

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