Silicate glasses and sulfide melts in the ICDP-USGS Eyreville B core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure, Virginia, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 447-468

  Belkin, Harvey E ^a   Horton, J Wright ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FELDSPAR; HYDRATION; IRON; MAGNETITE; MELTING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; POSITIVE IONS; PYRITES; SILICA; SPHERES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; ELECTRON-BEAM; GLASS MELTS; OPTICAL BEAMS; PURE IRON; ROCK CLASTS; SILICATE GLASS; SULFIDE MELT; TROILITE; VIRGINIA;

GLASS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARINE SEDIMENT; SILICATE; SUEVITE; SULFIDE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949122430     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(20)     Document Type: Article

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