The mineralogy of the Exmore beds- Chickahominy Formation boundary section of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure revealed in the Eyreville core

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 723-746

  Ferrell, Ray E ^a   Dypvik, Henning ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; FELDSPAR; KAOLINITE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; PYRITES; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SERPENTINE; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CLAST SIZES; DISORDERED SILICAS; GRAINSIZE; NONTRONITES; POWDER DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; SECTION ANALYSIS; SMECTITES; THIN-SECTIONS; WHOLE ROCKS;

CALCITE;

CLAY MINERAL; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES; GLAUCONITE; GRAIN SIZE; ILLITE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949110811     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(31)     Document Type: Article

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