The size and abundance of shocked quartz in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments from the Pacific basin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 403-415

  Bostwick, Jennifer A ^a   Kyte, Frank T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEPWATER DRILLING; INFILL DRILLING; SEDIMENTS;

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEEP SEA DRILLING; DISTRIBUTED SITES; OCEAN DRILLINGS; PLANAR DEFORMATION; QUARTZ GRAINS; SHOCKED QUARTZ; SIMILAR DISTANCE;

QUARTZ;

CORE ANALYSIS; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; DIAMETER; GRAIN SIZE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNITUDE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SIZE STRUCTURE;

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

EID: 84870775142     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.403     Document Type: Article

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