U-Pb ages of shocked zircon grains link distal K-Pg boundary sites in Spain and Italy with the Chicxulub impact

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 401-408

  Kamo, Sandra L ^a   Lana, Cristiano ^b   Morgan, Joanna V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicxulub impact; K Pg boundary; Shocked zircon; U Pb ID TIMS geochronology

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; CHARACTERISTIC AGE; CHICXULUB; CHICXULUB IMPACT; GENETIC LINK; K-PG BOUNDARY; PRIMARY SOURCES; SHOCK FEATURES; SHOCKED ZIRCON; TEXTURAL FEATURE; U-PB AGES; U-PB ID-TIMS GEOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON CRYSTALS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS;

ZIRCON;

CRATER; CRETACEOUS; EJECTA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; PALEOGENE; PARTICLE SIZE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA; HAITI; ITALY; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053376976     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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