Geologic columns for the ICDP-USGS Eyreville B core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Impactites and crystalline rocks, 1766 to 1096 m depth

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 21-49

  Wright Horton, J ^a   Gibson, Roger L ^b   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^b,c   Wittmann, Axel ^d   Gohn, Gregory S ^a   Edwards, Lucy E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVEES; MICA; SAND;

BIOTITE GRANITE; CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS; DRILL CORE; DRILLING PROJECTS; IMPACT STRUCTURES; LITHICS; MICA SCHISTS; U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY;

GRANITE;

CRATER; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEFORMATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; LITHOLOGY; PEGMATITE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949138582     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(02)     Document Type: Article

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