The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts

The late Eocene clinopyroxene-bearing spherule layer: New sites, nature of the strewn field, Ir data, and discovery of coesite and shocked quartz
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Published:April 01, 2009
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Shaobin Liu, B.P Glass, Frank T Kyte, Steven M Bohaty, 2009. "The late Eocene clinopyroxene-bearing spherule layer: New sites, nature of the strewn field, Ir data, and discovery of coesite and shocked quartz", The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts, Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari
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In order to better define the late Eocene clinopyroxene-bearing (cpx) spherule layer and to determine how the ejecta vary with distance from the presumed source crater (Popigai), we searched for the layer at 23 additional sites. We identified the layer at six (maybe seven) of these sites: Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Holes 592, 699A, 703A, 709C, 786A, 1090B, and probably 738B. The cpx spherule layer occurs in magnetochron 16n.1n, which indicates an age of ca. 35.4 ± 0.1 Ma for the layer. We found the highest abundance of cpx spherules and associated microtektites in...
- algae
- Angola Basin
- Asia
- Atlantic Ocean
- biostratigraphy
- Blake Nose
- Blake Plateau
- Cenozoic
- chain silicates
- clinopyroxene
- coesite
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Deep Sea Drilling Project
- DSDP Site 111
- DSDP Site 522
- DSDP Site 543
- DSDP Site 592
- Emperor Seamounts
- Eocene
- Exmouth Plateau
- Foraminifera
- framework silicates
- Iberian abyssal plain
- impacts
- Indian Ocean
- Invertebrata
- IPOD
- iridium
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- Kerguelen Plateau
- Labrador Sea
- Leg 12
- Leg 73
- Leg 78A
- Leg 90
- Leg 105
- Leg 110
- Leg 113
- Leg 114
- Leg 115
- Leg 119
- Leg 121
- Leg 122
- Leg 125
- Leg 145
- Leg 149
- Leg 171B
- Leg 174A
- Leg 177
- Lord Howe Rise
- magnetostratigraphy
- Maud Rise
- metals
- metamorphism
- microfossils
- microtektites
- nannofossils
- Ninetyeast Ridge
- North Atlantic
- North Pacific
- Northeast Atlantic
- Northwest Pacific
- O-18/O-16
- Ocean Drilling Program
- ODP Site 647
- ODP Site 672
- ODP Site 674
- ODP Site 689
- ODP Site 699
- ODP Site 703
- ODP Site 709
- ODP Site 738
- ODP Site 744
- ODP Site 757
- ODP Site 762
- ODP Site 763
- ODP Site 782
- ODP Site 786
- ODP Site 884
- ODP Site 900
- ODP Site 1053
- ODP Site 1073
- ODP Site 1090
- oxygen
- Pacific Ocean
- Paleogene
- Plantae
- platinum group
- Popigay Structure
- Protista
- pyroxene group
- quartz
- Russian Federation
- shock metamorphism
- silica minerals
- silicates
- South Atlantic
- South Pacific
- Southern Ocean
- Southwest Pacific
- spherules
- stable isotopes
- tektites
- Tertiary
- upper Eocene
- Weddell Sea
- West Pacific