Thermal History of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
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Deep drilling into the Chesapeake Bay impact structure.
Samples from a 1.76-kilometer-deep corehole drilled near the center of the late Eocene Chesapeake Bay impact structure (Virginia, USA) reveal its geologic, hydrologic, and biologic history. We conducted stratigraphic and petrologic analyses of the cores to elucidate the timing and results of impact-melt creation and distribution, transient-cavity collapse, and ocean-water resurge. Comparison of...
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تاریخ انتشار 2004