Two anomalies of platinum group elements above the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Beloc, Haiti: Geochemical context and consequences for the impact scenario

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 163-188

  Stüben, Doris ^a   Kramar, Utz ^a   Berner, Zsolt ^a   Eckhardt, Jörg Detlef ^a   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^a   Keller, Gerta ^b   Adatte, Thierry ^c   Heide, Klaus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CH 2000   (Switzerland)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIME; PLATINUM; SEDIMENTS; VOLCANOES;

BIOGENIC CARBONATES; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; LOWER TEMPERATURES; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WARM TEMPERATURES;

PRODUCTIVITY;

ANOMALY; BASALT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DANIAN; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MAASTRICHTIAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCENE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

BELOC; HAITI; HISPANIOLA;

EID: 84871962999     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.163     Document Type: Article

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