Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV

Siderophile elements from the Eyreville drill cores of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure do not constrain the nature of the projectile
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Published:September 01, 2010
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S. Goderis, J. Hertogen, F. Vanhaecke, Ph. Claeys, 2010. "Siderophile elements from the Eyreville drill cores of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure do not constrain the nature of the projectile", Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV, Roger L. Gibson, Wolf Uwe Reimold
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Fifteen impactites from various intervals within the Eyreville cores of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure were sampled to measure siderophile element concentrations. The sampled intervals include basement-derived rocks with veins, polymict impact breccias and associated rocks, and crater-fill sediments. The platinum group element (PGE) concentrations obtained are generally low (e.g., iridium concentrations less than 0.1 ng/g) and are fractionated relative to chondrites. There is no clear distinction in concentration between the different impactite units. So far in the Chesapeake Bay material, only the impact melt rocks from the 823-m-deep Cape Charles test hole, drilled over the central uplift of the...
- achondrites
- Asia
- asteroids
- breccia
- Canada
- Cenozoic
- Chesapeake Bay impact structure
- chondrites
- comets
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- cores
- differentiation
- Eastern Canada
- Eocene
- ICP mass spectra
- impact breccia
- impactites
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- mass spectra
- metals
- metamorphic rocks
- meteorites
- Ontario
- ordinary chondrites
- Os-188/Os-187
- osmium
- Paleogene
- platinum group
- Popigay Structure
- Russian Federation
- siderophile elements
- spectra
- stable isotopes
- stony meteorites
- Tertiary
- United States
- upper Eocene
- Virginia
- Wanapitei Lake
- Eyreville Borehole
- Cape Charles Borehole