Tsunami backwash deposits with Chicxulub impact ejecta and dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary in the La Popa Basin, Mexico

Sedimentology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 737-765

  Schulte, Peter ^a   Smit, Jan ^b   Deutsch, Alexander ^c   Salge, Tobias ^d   Friese, Andrea ^a   Beichel, Kilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicxulub; Event deposit; K Pg boundary; Mexico; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BACKFLOW; BIOTURBATION; BIVALVE SHELLS; CHICXULUB; CHICXULUB IMPACT; COASTAL PLAIN; CRITICAL LINKS; DEEP-MARINE; DENSITY FLOW; DEPOSITIONAL EVENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; FLOW REGIMES; GULF OF MEXICO; IN-SHELL; K-PG BOUNDARY; ME-XICO; PULSE-LIKE; SEDIMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SHALLOW-WATER; SHEET-LIKE; SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION; TSUNAMI WAVES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEBRIS; DEFORMATION; LANTHANUM; LIQUEFACTION; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

DEPOSITS;

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DIAPIR; DINOSAUR; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SHELF SEDIMENT; SILTSTONE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SPHERULE; TSUNAMI;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LA POPA BASIN; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; DINOSAURIA; GASTROPODA; SPHERULES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858701883     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01274.x     Document Type: Article

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