Impact spherule-bearing, Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sand body, shell Creek stratigraphic section, Alabama, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 437, Issue , 2007, Pages 179-187

  King Jr , David T ^a   Petruny, Lucille W ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Astra Terra Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Alabama; Chicxulub; Cretaceous Tertiary boundary; Impact spherules; Shell Creek

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; GRAVITATION; SAND; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRATIGRAPHY;

ALABAMA; CHICXULUB; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT SPHERULES; SHELL CREEK;

METEOR IMPACTS;

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HUMMOCKY CROSS-STRATIFICATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ALABAMA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; YUCATAN;

SPHERULES;

EID: 75749105408     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2437(10)     Document Type: Article

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