K/T boundary layer in Deccan Intertrappeans at Anjar, Kutch

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 417-424

  Bhandari, N ^a   Shukla, P N ^a   Ghevariya, Z G ^b   Sundaram, S M ^b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; IRON OXIDES; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

BOLIDE IMPACT; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DECCAN VOLCANIC PROVINCE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BASALT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DECCAN TRAPS; IRIDIUM; LIMNOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANJAR; GUJARAT; INDIA; KUTCH;

EID: 84870821778     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.417     Document Type: Article

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