Rock-avalanche and ocean-resurge deposits in the late Eocene Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Evidence from the ICDP-USGS Eyreville cores, Virginia, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 587-615

  Gohn, Gregory S ^a   Powars, David S ^a   Dypvik, Henning ^b   Edwards, Lucy E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; FLUIDIZATION; GRANITE; INFILL DRILLING; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS; FLUIDIZATION STRUCTURES; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SHELF SEDIMENTATION; TRANSIENT CAVITIES; TURBIDITE DEPOSITS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BRECCIA; CLAST; DEBRIS FLOW; DEPOSITION; DIAMICTON; EOCENE; FLUIDIZATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MATRIX; RESEARCH PROGRAM; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 74949127901     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(26)     Document Type: Article

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