The Eocene-Oligocene sedimentary record in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Implications for climate and sea-level changes on the western Atlantic margin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 839-865

  Schulte, Peter ^a   Wade, Bridget S ^b,c   Kontny, Agnes ^d   Self Trail, Jean M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EROSION; GAMMA RAYS; INFILL DRILLING; ISOTOPES; KAOLINITE; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICA; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS TRACT; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WARM AND HUMID CLIMATES;

SEDIMENTS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EUSTACY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 74949144241     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(35)     Document Type: Article

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