Morokweng impact structure, South Africa: Geologic, petrographic, and isotopic results, and implications for the size of the structure

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 339, Issue , 1999, Pages 61-90

  Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^b   Brandstätter, Franz ^c   Kruger, F Johan ^a   Armstrong, Richard A ^d   Bootsman, Cornelis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORE DRILLING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; INFILL DRILLING; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; LEVEES; MELTING; RUBIDIUM ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

FRICTIONAL MELTING; IMPACT STRUCTURES; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; NORTHWEST PROVINCE; PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES; SECONDARY ALTERATION; SUBSURFACE INFORMATION;

ROCKS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; ARCHEAN; BASEMENT ROCK; CRATER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MEGABRECCIA; METAMORPHISM; PETROGRAPHY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84870942396     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2339-6.61     Document Type: Article

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