Petrographic investigation of melt and matrix relationships in Chicxulub crater Yaxcopoil-1 brecciated melt rock and melt rock-bearing suevite (846-885m, units 4 and 5)

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 86, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-20

  Nelson, Melissa J ^a   Newsom, Horton E ^a   Spilde, Michael N ^a   Salge, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; EMPLACEMENT; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MATRIX; MELT; MELTING; METASOMATISM; P-T CONDITIONS; PARAGENESIS; PETROGRAPHY; SUEVITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 84860550760     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.02.022     Document Type: Article

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