Stratigraphic distribution of extraterrestrial markers at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico area: Implications for the temporal complexity of the event

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 279-286

  Rocchia, R ^a   Robin, E ^a   Froget, L ^a   Gayraud, J ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DEPOSITION; LITHOLOGY;

COLLISIONAL; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL; GLASS PARTICLES; GRAZING INCIDENCE; GULF OF MEXICO; MULTIPLE COLLISIONS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

COLLISION ZONE; COSMIC RAY; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84870837574     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.279     Document Type: Article

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