Search for a meteoritic component in impact breccia from the Eyreville core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Considerations from platinum group element contents

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 469-479

  McDonald, Iain ^a   Bartosova, Katerina ^b   Koeberl, Christian ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILL DRILLING; ISOTOPES; METEORITES; PLATINUM; PROJECTILES; ROCKS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMPONENTS; IMPACT STRUCTURES; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS (PGES); SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS;

ECONOMIC GEOLOGY;

BRECCIA; CHONDRITE; COASTAL SEDIMENT; EJECTA; EOCENE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORITE; OSMIUM; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT; SUEVITE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949113207     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(21)     Document Type: Article

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