Mass wasting of Atlantic continental margins following the Chicxulub impact event

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 79-95

  Norris, R D ^a   Firth, J V ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; EROSION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRETACEOUS CARBONATE; DEEP SEA DRILLING; DELAYED RECOVERIES; EXTINCTION RATES; GEOCHEMICAL TRACER; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

DEEPWATER DRILLING;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; MAASTRICHTIAN; MASS WASTING; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

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

EID: 84871971583     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.79     Document Type: Article

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