Geochemistry of impactites and crystalline basement-derived lithologies from the ICDP-USGS Eyreville A and B drill cores, Chesapeake Bay impact structure, Virginia, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 481-541

  Schmitt, Ralf T ^a   Bartosova, Katerina ^b   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^a,c   Mader, Dieter ^b   Wittmann, Axel ^a,d   Koeberl, Christian ^b   Gibson, Roger L ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DRILLS; GRANITE; HEMATITE; INFILL DRILLING; MAGNESIA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; CRYSTALLINE TARGETS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

CORE DRILLING;

AMPHIBOLITE; BASEMENT ROCK; BRECCIA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; ENRICHMENT; GNEISS; I-TYPE ROCK; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; LITHOLOGY; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SANDSTONE; SCHIST; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 74949119586     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(22)     Document Type: Article

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