Debrisites from the Sudbury impact event in Ontario, north of Lake Superior, and a new age constraint: Are they base-surge deposits or tsunami deposits?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 245-268

  Addison, William D ^a   Brumpton, Gregory R ^a   Davis, Don W ^b   Fralick, Philip W ^c   Kissin, Stephen A ^c  

^a University of Toronto ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CALCITE; CARBONACEOUS SHALE; CARBONATION; DEPOSITS; FRACTURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LEAD ALLOYS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANOES;

ACCRETIONARY LAPILLI; CHAOTIC NATURE; GUNFLINT FORMATIONS; LOOSE SEDIMENT; PLANAR DEFORMATION; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TUFFACEOUS MATERIALS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

CEMENTATION; DEFORMATION; EJECTA; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GLACIATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; TEKTITE; TSUNAMI;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

SPHERULES;

EID: 78650925208     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(16)     Document Type: Article

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