Postimpact alteration of sedimentary breccias in the ICDP-USGS Eyreville A and B cores with comparison to the Cape Charles core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure, Virginia, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 699-721

  Larsen, Daniel ^a   Stephens, Elizabeth C ^a   Zivkovic, Vladimir B ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CALCITE; DISSOLUTION; FELDSPAR; FLOW OF FLUIDS; KAOLINITE; MICA; PYRITES; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TEMPERATURE; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ZEOLITES;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; FELDSPAR DISSOLUTION; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES; LOW TEMPERATURE ALTERATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTARY SUBSTRATES;

CLAY ALTERATION;

ALBITIZATION; BRECCIA; DISSOLUTION; FELDSPAR; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; IMPACT STRUCTURE; KAOLINITE; MINERALOGY; MUSCOVITE; PETROGRAPHY; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY; SMECTITE; VERMICULITE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

CALLUNA VULGARIS; MICAS;

EID: 74949114717     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(30)     Document Type: Article

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