Paleoenvironmental recovery from the Chesapeake Bay bolide impact: The benthic foraminiferal record

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 747-773

  Poag, C Wylie ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DEPOSITION; INFILL DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SILT;

AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES; IMPACT CRATERS; MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES; OFFSHORE TARGETS; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

BOREHOLES;

ACCUMULATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOLIDE; CRATER; DEEP DRILLING; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TURBIDITE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 74949120031     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(32)     Document Type: Article

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