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GSA Special Papers
Large Meteorite Impacts III
Author(s)
Geological Society of America

Volume
384
Copyright:
Geological Society of America
Geological Society of America
ISBN print:
9780813723846
Publication date:
January 01, 2005
Book Chapter
Late Devonian Alamo Impact, southern Nevada, USA: Evidence of size, marine site, and widespread effects
Author(s)
Jared R. Morrow
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado 80639, USA jared.morrow@unco.edu
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Jared R. Morrow
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Charles A. Sandberg
U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225-0046, USA
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Charles A. Sandberg
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Anita G. Harris
1523 East Hillsboro Boulevard #1023, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441, USA
Anita G. Harris
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Published:January 01, 2005
The early Late Devonian (early Frasnian) Alamo Impact targeted an oceanic, off-platform site in southern Nevada, excavating a crater with a final diameter of 44–65 km. The original crater is now dismembered and buried beneath younger rocks. Consequently, its size and site must be deduced through multiple converging lines of geological and paleontological evidence. Previous and new evidence includes the catastrophically emplaced Alamo Breccia, tsunamites, shock-metamorphosed quartz grains, carbonate accretionary lapilli, an iridium anomaly, sub-Breccia clastic injection, deep-water Breccia channels, and ejecta material. We now demonstrate, on the basis of conodont microfossils in carbonate ejecta clasts within lapillistone blocks and...
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