Tagle, Roald et al. (2003): Platinum group elements analysis of impactites from the ICDP Chicxulub drill core Yax-1; are there traces of the impactor?

Leg/Site/Hole:
DSDP 84
DSDP 84 567
Identifier:
2006-068551
georefid

Creator:
Tagle, Roald
Natural History Museum, Institute of Mineralogy, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
author

Erzinger, J.
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Federal Republic of Germany
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Hecht, L.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Stoeffler, D.
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Schmitt, R. T.
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Claeys, P.
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Identification:
Platinum group elements analysis of impactites from the ICDP Chicxulub drill core Yax-1; are there traces of the impactor?
2003
In: Anonymous, Lunar and planetary science, XXXIV; papers presented to the Thirty-fourth lunar and planetary science conference
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, United States
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PGE in the impactites from the Chicxulub cores Yax-1 and Y6, show a terrestrial pattern and no meteoritic contamination. This supports a non-homogeneous distribution of impactor material between crater fill and the distal impact formations.
English
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:20.4500
West:-90.5557East: -89.3000
South:12.4259

Geochemistry of rocks, soils, and sediments; Igneous and metamorphic petrology; breccia; Campeche Mexico; carbonaceous chondrites; Cenozoic; chemical composition; Chicxulub Crater; chondrites; cores; Cretaceous; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DSDP Site 567; gold; ICP mass spectra; impactites; IPOD; iridium; K-T boundary; Leg 84; lower Paleocene; mass spectra; Mesozoic; metals; metamorphic rocks; meteorites; Mexico; Paleocene; Paleogene; palladium; platinum; platinum group; rhodium; ruthenium; siderophile elements; spectra; stony meteorites; stratigraphic boundary; Tertiary; Upper Cretaceous; X-ray fluorescence spectra; Yax-1; Yucatan Peninsula;

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