Alamo Event, Nevada: Crater stratigraphy and impact breccia Realms

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 437, Issue , 2007, Pages 99-137

  Pinto, Jesus A ^a   Warme, John E ^b  

^a PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Alamo Breccia; Crater stratigraphy; Devonian; Impact; Nevada

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; LIME; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ROCKS; RUNOFF; STRATIGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS;

ALAMO BRECCIA; CARBONATE MELTS; DEVONIANS; IMPACT; IMPACT PROCESS; NEVADA; PLATFORM MARGINS; SHALLOW WATER CARBONATES;

METEOR IMPACTS;

BRECCIA; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEVONIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 75749108517     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2437(07)     Document Type: Article

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