The Sedimentary Record of a Small, Deeply Eroded Impact Structure: A Search for Detrital Shocked Minerals and Extraterrestrial Chromites in Sediments Eroded from the Ordovician Rock Elm Impact Structure (USA)
Abstract
Shocked minerals eroded from impact structures survive in sediments. We report detrital shocked quartz in modern alluvium at the Rock Elm impact structure.
- Publication:
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44th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013LPI....44.2028C