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Alamo Event, Nevada: Crater stratigraphy and impact breccia Realms
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Jesús A. Pinto
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Jesús A. Pinto
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INTEVEP-PDVSA, Building South 1, Floor 2, Office 202, 1201, Los Teques, Venezuela
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John E. Warme
John E. Warme
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Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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Published:January 01, 2007
Based on evaluation of past results and new research, we have partitioned the distribution of the Alamo Breccia in southeastern Nevada and western Utah into six genetic Realms that provide a working model for the marine Late Devonian Alamo Impact Event. Each Realm exhibits discrete impact processes and stratigraphic products that are enumerated here. The first five form roughly concentric semicircular bands across the Devonian shallow-water carbonate platform. These are: (1) Rim Realm, where a newly defined impact stratigraphy includes both autogenic and allogenic breccias associated with the crater rim; (2) Ring Realm, where breccias are now interpreted to have...
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GSA Special Papers
The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts
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437
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Geological Society of America
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9780813724379
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January 01, 2007
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- breccia
- carbonate platforms
- Devonian
- ejecta
- framework silicates
- impact breccia
- impact craters
- impact features
- impactites
- impacts
- lapilli
- metamorphic rocks
- metamorphism
- Nevada
- Paleozoic
- quartz
- reconstruction
- resurgence
- ring structures
- sedimentary structures
- seismites
- shallow-water environment
- shock metamorphism
- silica minerals
- silicates
- stratigraphic units
- tectonics
- United States
- Upper Devonian
- Utah
- southeastern Nevada
- western Utah
- Oxyoke Canyon Sandstone
- Alamo Breccia
- Tempiute Mountain
- Alamo event
- Sentinel Mountain Dolostone
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