Inside the crater, outside the crater: Stratigraphic details of the margin of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, Virginia, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 319-393

  Edwards, Lucy E ^a   Powars, David S ^a   Horton, J Wright ^a   Gohn, Gregory S ^a   Self Trail, Jean M ^a   Litwin, Ronald J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; NASA;

CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONS; PLEISTOCENE; POST IMPACTS; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; UNDEFORMED MATERIALS; UPPER EOCENE; US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; VIRGINIA;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CRATER; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; PALEOCHANNEL; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650928489     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(19)     Document Type: Article

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