The Chicxulub ejecta deposit at Demerara Rise (western Atlantic): Dissecting the geochemical anomaly using laser ablation-mass spectrometry

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 279-282

  Berndt, Jasper ^a   Deutsch, Alexander ^a   Schulte, Peter ^b   Mezger, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SPOTS; CHICXULUB; CHICXULUB IMPACT; DEMERARA RISE; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION; EVENT BED; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY; GLASS SPHERULES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; IMPACTORS; IN-SITU; LA-ICP-MS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; NB/TA RATIO; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PALEOGENE; SAMPLE VOLUME; SEA FLOOR; SETTLING TIME; SUBMICROMETERS; WESTERN ATLANTIC;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; DEPOSITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FALLOUT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; PLATINUM; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANOMALY; CRATON; EJECTA; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LASER METHOD; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEAFLOOR; SPHERULE; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); DEMERARA RISE;

SPHERULES;

EID: 79951695092     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31599.1     Document Type: Article

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