Postimpact heat conduction and compaction-driven fluid flow in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure based on downhole vitrinite reflectance data, ICDP-USGS Eyreville deep core holes and Cape Charles test holes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 905-930

  Malinconico, MaryAnn Love ^a,b   Sanford, Ward E ^a   Wright Horton, W J J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; HEAT CONDUCTION; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS; DOWNHOLES; DRILLING PROJECTS; FLUID-FLOW; POST IMPACTS; REFLECTANCE DATA; U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BLACK SHALE; BRECCIA; CRATER; FLUID FLOW; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; HEAT FLOW; IMPACT STRUCTURE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL REGIME; UPLIFT; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 74949126189     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(38)     Document Type: Article

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