The global stratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary impact ejecta

J Smit - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The Chicxulub crater ejecta stratigraphy is reviewed, in the context of the
stratigraphy of underlying and overlying rock sequences. The ejecta sequence is regionally …

Spherule layers—records of ancient impacts

BM Simonson, BP Glass - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract A large extraterrestrial object striking Earth at cosmic velocity melts and vaporizes
silicate materials, which can condense into highly spheroidal, sand-size particles that get …

Chicxulub crater: a possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

AR Hildebrand, GT Penfield, DA Kring… - …, 1991 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We suggest that a buried 180-km-diameter circular structure on the Yucatán Peninsula,
Mexico, is an impact crater. Its size and shape are revealed by magnetic and gravity-field …

Traces of catastrophe: A handbook of shock-metamorphic effects in terrestrial meteorite impact structures

BM French - 1998 - ntrs.nasa.gov
This handbook of Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures
emphasizes terrestrial impact structures, field geology, and particularly the recognition and …

Coeval 40Ar/39Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites

CC Swisher III, JM Grajales-Nishimura, A Montanari… - Science, 1992 - science.org
40Ar/39Ar dating of drill core samples of a glassy melt rock recovered from beneath a
massive impact breccia contained within the 180-kilometer subsurface Chicxulub crater in …

Scale and structure in natural food webs

K Havens - Science, 1992 - science.org
The degree to which widely accepted generalizations about food web structure apply to
natural communities was determined through examination of 50 pelagic webs sampled …

The Chicxulub impact event and its environmental consequences at the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

DA Kring - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2007 - Elsevier
An impact-mass extinction hypothesis for the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K/T) boundary transition
has been confirmed with multiple lines of evidence, beginning with the discovery of impact …

[PDF][PDF] Coarse-grained, clastic sandstone complex at the K/T boundary around the Gulf of Mexico: Deposition by tsunami waves induced by the Chicxulub impact

J Smit, TB Roep, W Alvarez, A Montanari… - Geological Society of …, 1996 - academia.edu
The K/T boundary in marine deposits in and around the Gulf of Mexico at a distance of< 800
km from the Chicxulub impact structure is marked by a series of unusual sandstone beds in …

[图书][B] Impact stratigraphy: the Italian record

A Montanari, C Koeberl - 2002 - books.google.com
This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy, with emphasis on the
recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field, by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the …

Hydrocode simulation of the Chicxulub impact event and the production of climatically active gases

E Pierazzo, DA Kring, HJ Melosh - Journal of Geophysical …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
We constructed a numerical model of the Chicxulub impact event using the Chart‐D
Squared (CSQ) code coupled with the ANalytic Equation Of State (ANEOS) package. In the …