Lateral transport of suevite inferred from 3D shape-fabric analysis: Evidence from the Ries impact crater, Germany

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2312-2319

  Meyer, Cornelia ^a   Jébrak, Michel ^b   Stöffler, Dieter ^a   Riller, Ulrich ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW REGIMES; GERMANY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; IMPACT CRATERING; IMPACT CRATERS; LATERAL FLOW; LATERAL TRANSPORT; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSITS; PYROCLASTIC FLOWS; SOUTHERN GERMANY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; VOLCANIC CENTERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EMPLACEMENT; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUEVITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; RIES CRATER;

EID: 80055097141     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30393.1     Document Type: Article

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