A model for the formation of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater as revealed by drilling and numerical simulation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 571-585

  Kenkmann, T ^a   Collins, G S ^b   Wittmann, A ^c   Wunnemann K ^a   Reimold, W U ^a   Melosh, H J ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; BUILDINGS; DEPOSITION; DRILLS; INFILL DRILLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS; DIFFERENT STAGES; DRILLING PROJECTS; IMPACT CRATERS; MELT FRAGMENTS; PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

CORE DRILLING;

BASEMENT ROCK; BRECCIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRATER; DEPOSITION; EJECTA; EMPLACEMENT; IMPACTITE; KINEMATICS; LITHOLOGY; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; PETROGRAPHY; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949105414     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(25)     Document Type: Article

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