Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 55-68

  Claeys, Philippe ^a   Kiessling, Wolfgang ^b   Alvarez, Walter ^c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Natural History Museum   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; EROSION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH LATITUDES; LARGE DATABASE; PLATFORM MARGINS; SHOCKED QUARTZ; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

COASTAL EROSION; CRATERING; DATABASE; DEBRIS FLOW; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EJECTA; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GIS; METEORITE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SOUTH AMERICA; YUCATAN;

EID: 84872018665     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.55     Document Type: Article

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