Siderophile elements from the Eyreville drill cores of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure do not constrain the nature of the projectile

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 465, Issue , 2010, Pages 395-409

  Goderis, S ^a,b   Hertogen, J ^c   Vanhaecke, F ^b   Claeys, Ph ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFILL DRILLING; METEOR IMPACTS; METEORITES; PROJECTILES;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; IMPACT STRUCTURES; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; MIXING MODELS; ORDINARY CHONDRITES; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS;

CORE DRILLING;

CHONDRITE; CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IMPACTITE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METEORITE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

CANADA; CHESAPEAKE BAY; ONTARIO [CANADA]; UNITED STATES; WANAPITEI LAKE;

EID: 78650937770     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2465(20)     Document Type: Article

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