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Session 2 References

Session 3 References

Session 4 References

Session 5 References



Session 1 References


Amazon logo Chapman, C. R., and D. Morrison. Cosmic Catastrophes. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1989, p. 302. ISBN: 9780306431630.

French, B. M. Traces of Catastrophe. Houston, TX: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1998, p. 120. (LPI Contribution No. 954.)

Amazon logo Gehrels, T., ed. Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1994, p. 1300. ISBN: 9780816515059.

Grieve, R. A. F. "Impact Cratering on the Earth." Scientific American 262 (1990): 66-73.

Hildebrand, A. R. "The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary Impact (or the Dinosaurs Didn't Have a Chance)." Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 87 (1993): 77-118.

Kelley, S. "The Geochronology of Large Igneous Provinces, Terrestrial Impact Craters, and Their Relationship to Mass Extinctions on Earth." Journal of the Geological Society, London 164 (2007): 923-936.

Amazon logo Melosh, H. J. Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780195042849.

Pilkington, M. and R. A. F. Grieve. "The Geophysical Signature of Terrestrial Impact Craters." Reviews of Geophysics 30 (May 1992): 161-181.

Amazon logo Roth, E., B. Poty, and M-T. Menager, eds. Nuclear Methods of Dating. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1989, p. 600. ISBN: 9780792301882.



Session 2 References




Chicxulub Impact Crater References


Abramov, O., and D. A. Kring. "Numerical Modeling of Impact-induced Hydrothermal Activity at the Chicxulub Crater." Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42 (2007): 93-112.

Alegret, L., I. Arenillas, J. A. Arz, C. Di'az, J. M. Grajales-Nishimura, A. Mele'ndez, E. Molina, R. Rojas, and A. R. Soria. "Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Deposits at Loma Capiro, Central Cuba: Evidence for the Chicxulub Impact." Geology 33, no. 9 (September 2005): 721-724.

Alvarez, L. W., W. Alvarez, F. Asaro, and H. V. Michel. "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous/Tertiary Extinction." Science 208 (1980): 1095-1008.

Amazon logo Dressler, B. O., R. A. F. Grieve, and V. L. Sharpton, eds. Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution. Geological Society of America Special Paper 293, 1994, p. 348. ISBN: 9780813722931.

French, B. M., and N. M. Short, eds. Shock Metamorphism of Natural Materials. Baltimore, MD: Mono Book Corp., 1968, p. 644.

Grajales-Nishimura, J. M., E. Cedillo-Pardo, C. Rosales-Domínguez, D. J. Morán-Zenteno, W. Alvarez, P. Claeys, J. Ruíz-Morales, P. Padilla-Avila, A. Sánchez-Ríos. "Chicxulub Impact: The Origin of Reservoir and Seal Facies in the Southeastern Mexico Oil Fields." Geology 28, no. 4 (April 2000): 307-310.

Grieve, R. A. F. "Terrestrial Impact Structures." Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 15 (1987): 245-270.

Hildebrand, A. R., and G. T. Penfield. "A Buried 180-km Diameter Probable Impact Crater on the Yucatan Peninsula." Mexico, Eos 71 (1990): 1424-1425.

Kring, D. A. "The Dimensions of the Chicxulub Impact Crater and Impact Melt Sheet." Journal of Geophysical Research 100, no. E8 (August 1995): 16 and 979-986.

———. "The Chicxulub Impact Event and Its Environmental Consequences at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary (in Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Events)." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255, no. 1/2 (November 2007): 4-21.

Amazon logo Melosh, H. J. Impact Cratering: A Geological Process. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 245. ISBN: 9780195042849.

———. "Atmospheric impact processes." Advances in Space Research 11, no. 6 (1991): 87-93.

Morgan, J., and M. Warner. "Chicxulub: The Third Dimension of a Multi-ring Impact Basin." Geology 27, no. 5 (May 1999): 407-410.

Morgan, J., G. Christeson, S. Gulick, Grieve Richard, J. Urrutia, P. Barton, M. Rebolledo, and J. Melosh. "Joint IODP/ICDP Scientific Drilling of the Chicxulub Impact Crater." Scientific Drilling, no. 4 (March 2007): 42-44.

Perry, E., Luis Marin, J. McClain, and G. Vela'zquez. "Ring of Cenotes (Sinkholes), Northwest Yucatan, Mexico: Its Hydrogeologic Characteristics and Possible Association with the Chicxulub Impact Crater." Geology 23, no. 1 (January 1995): 17-20.

Pope, K. O., E. Rejmankova, and J. F. Paris. "Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) Observations of Groundwater Discharge and Wetlands Associated with the Chicxulub Impact Crater, Northwestern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico." GSA Bulletin 113, no. 3 (March 2001): 403-416.

Pope, K. O., A. C. Ocampo, A. G. Fischer, W. Walter Alvarez, B. W. Fouke, C. L. Webster, F. J. Vega, J. Smit, E. A. Fritsche, and P. Claeys. "Chicxulub Impact Ejecta from Albion Island, Belize." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 170, no. 4 (July 1999): 351-364.

Amazon logo Roddy, D. J., R. O. Pepin, and R. B. Merrill, eds. Impact and Explosion Cratering: Planetary and Terrestrial Implications. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 1977, p. 1301. ASIN: B0016AJ25C.

Amazon logo Sharpton, V. L., and P. D. Ward, eds. Global Catastrophes in Earth History: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Impacts, Volcanism, and Mass Mortality. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 1991, pp. 247 and 631. ISBN: 9780813722474.

Sharpton, V. L., G. B. Dalrymple, L. E. Marín, G. Ryder, B. C. Schuraytz, and J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi. "New Links between the Chicxulub Impact Structure and the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary." Nature 359 (1992): 819-821.

Tagle, R., J. Erzinger, L. Hecht, R. T. Schmitt, D. Stoffler, and P. Claeys. "Platinum Group Elements in Impactites of the ICDP Chicxulub Drill Core Yaxcopoil-1: Are There Traces of the Projectile?" Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 6 (2004): 1009-1016.

Tuchscherer, M. G., W. U. Reimold, R. L. Gibson, and C. Koeberl. "Petrographic Observations and Classification: Impactites from the Yaxcopoil-1 Borehole, Chicxulub Impact Structure, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico." Lunar and Planetary Science (2003).

———. "Geochemical Characteristics of Impactites from the Yaxcopoil-1 ICDP Drip Core, Chicxulub Impact Structure, Mexico." Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV (2004).

Sharpton V. L., K. Burke, A. Camargo-Zanoguera, S. A. Hall, D. S. Lee, L. E. Marín, G. Suáarez-Reynoso, J. M. Quezada-Muñeton, P. D. Spudis, and J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi. "Chicxulub Multiring Impact Basin: Size and Other Characteristics Derived from Gravity Analysis." Science 261 (1993): 1564-1567.

Sharpton, V. L. "Chicxulub Impact Crater Provides Clues to Earth's History." Earth in Space 8, no. 4 (December 1995): 7.

Amazon logo Silver, L. T., and P. H. Schultz, eds. "Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth: An Intimate History." Geological Society of America Special Paper 190, 1982, p. 128. ISBN: 9780375706202.

Vermeesch, P. M., and J. V. Morgan. "Chicxulub Central Crater Structure: Initial Results from Physical Property Measurements and Combined Velocity and Gravity Modeling." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 7 (July 2004): 1019-1034.

Wittmann, A., T. Kenkmann, L. Hecht, and D. Stöffler. "Reconstruction of the Chicxulub Ejecta Plume from its Deposits in Drill Core Yaxcopoil-1." GSA Bulletin 119, no. 9/10 (September/October 2007): 1151-1167.

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Mjlonir Impact Crater References


Dypvik, H., S. T. Gudlaugsson, F. Tsikalas, M. Attrep, Jr., R. E. Ferrell, Jr., D. H. Krinsley, A. Mørk, J. I. Faleide, and J. Nagy. "Mjølnir Structure: An Impact Crater in the Barents Sea." Geology 24, no. 9 (September 1996): 779-782.

Dypvik, H., and M. Moses Attrep. "Geochemical Signals of the Late Jurassic, Marine Mjolnir Impact." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34, no. 3 (May 1999): 393-406.

Dypvik, H., R. E. Ferrell, and P. T. Sandbakken. "The Clay Mineralogy of Sediments Related to the Marine Mjolnir Impact Crater." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38, no. 10 (October 2003): 1437-1450.

Dypvik, H., P. T. Sandbakken, G. Postma, and A. Atle Mork. "Early Post-impact Sedimentation Around the Central High of the Mjolnir Impact Crater (Barents Sea, Late Jurassic)." Sedimentary Geology 168, no. 3/4 (June 2004): 227-247.

Dypvik, H., M. Smelror, P. T. Sandbakken, E. Salvigsen, and E. Kalleson. "Traces of the Marine Mjølnir Impact Event." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 241 (2006): 621-636.

Gudlaugsson, S. T., "Large Impact Crater in the Barents Sea." Geology 21 (April 1993): 291-294.

Ormo, J., and M. Lindstrom. "When a Cosmic Impact Strikes the Sea Bed." Geol Mag 137, no. 1 (2000): 67-80.

Shuvalov, V., and H. Dypvik. "Ejecta Formation and Crater Development of the Mjolnir Impact." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 3 (March 2004): 467-479.

Tsikalas, F., S. T. Gudlaugsson, and J. I. Faleide. "Collapse, Infilling, and Post-impact Deformation at the Mjølnir Impact Structure, Barents Sea." Geological Society of America Bulletin 110 (1998): 537-552.

Tsikalas, F., S. T. Gudlaugsson, O. Eldholm, and J. I. Faleide. "1998, Integrated Geophysical Analysis Supporting the Impact Origin of the Mjølnir Structure, Barents Sea." Tectonophysics 289 (1998): 257-280.

Tsikalas, F. "Mjolnir Crater as a Result of Oblique Impact: Asymmetry Evidence Constrains Impact Direction and Angle" In Impact Tectonics, Impact Studies. Edited by C. Koeberl and H. Herbert. Springer Verlag, Berlin, p. 285-306, 2005. ISBN: 9783540241817.



Sudbury Impact Structure References


Ames, D. E., D. H. Watkinson, and R. R. Parrish. "Dating of a Regional Hydrothermal System Induced by the 1850 Ma Sudbury Impact Event." Geology 26, no. 5 (May 1998): 447-450.

Dutch, S. I. "Significance of Back-to-Back Facing Directions along the South Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex." Ontario, Geological Society of America National Meeting, Boston, MA, November 7, 2001.

French, B. M., and N. M. Short, eds. "Sudbury Structure, Ontario: Some Petrographic Evidence For an Origin by Meteorite Impact." In Shock Metamorphism of Natural Materials, Proceedings of the First Conference Held at NASA, Goddard Flight Center, Maryland, 1966. Baltimore, MD: Mono Book Corp., 1968, pp. 383-412. (Library of Congress Catalog No. 68-59422.)

Mungall, J. E., D. E. Ames, and J. J. Hanley. "Geochemical Evidence from the Sudbury Structure for Crustal Redistribution by Large Bolide Impacts." Nature 429 (3 June 2004): 546-548.

Naldrett, A. J. "From Impact to Riches: Evolution of Geological Understanding as Seen at Sudbury, Canada." GSA Today 13, no. 2 (February 2003): 4-9.

Pope, K. O., S. W. Kieffer, and D. E. Ames. "Empirical and Theoretical Comparisons of the Chicxulub and Sudbury Impact Structures." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, no. 1 (January 2004): 97-116.

Zieg, M. J., and B. D. Marsh. "The Sudbury Igneous Complex: Viscous Emulsion Differentiation of a Superheated Impact Melt Sheet." GSA Bulletin 117, no. 11/12 (November/December 2005): 1427-1450.



References For Vredefort


Grieve, R., and A. Ann Therriault. "Vredefort, Sudbury, Chicxulub; Three of a Kind?" Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 28 (2000): 305-338.

McCarthy, T. S., I. G. Stanistreet, and L. J. Robb. "Geological Studies Related to the Origin of the Witwatersrand Basin and Its Mineralization: An Introduction and a Strategy for Research and Exploration." S Afr J of Geol 93 (1990): 1-4.

Moser, D. "Dating the Shock Wave and Thermal Imprint of the Giant Vredefort Impact, South Africa." Geology 25, no. 1 (January 1997): 7-10.

Muundjua, M., R. J. Hart, S. A. Gilder, L. Carporzen, and A. Galdeano. "Magnetic Imaging of the Vredefort Impact Crater, South Africa." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 261 (2007) 456-468.

Spray, J. G., S. P. Kelley, and W. U. Reimold. "Laser Probe Argon-40/Argon-39 Dating of Coesite- and Stishovite-bearing Pseudotachylytes and the Age of the Vredefort Impact Event." Meteoritics 30 (1995): 335-343.

Therriault, A. M., R. A. F. Grieve, and W. U. Reimold. "Original Size of the Vredefort Structure: Implications for the Geological Evolution of the Witwatersrand Basin." Meteoritics Planet Sci 32 (1997): 71-77.

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Session 3 References


Amsden, A. A., H. M. Ruppel, and C. W. Hirt. "SALE: A Simplified ALE Computer Program For Fluid Flow at All Speeds." Los Alamos National Laboratories LA-8095, 1980, p. 101.

Anderson, C. E., Jr. "An Overview of the Theory of Hydrocodes." International Journal of Impact Engineering 5 (1987): 33-59.

Collins, G. S., H. J. Melosh, and Robert A. Marcus. "Earth Impact Effects Program: A Web-based Computer Program for Calculating the Regional Environmental Consequences of a Meteoroid Impact on Earth." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40, no. 6 (2005): 817-840.

Amazon logo Dean, J. R. Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2005. ASIN: B000PY4IMM.

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Amazon logo Deutsch, A. "Isotope Systematics Support the Impact Origin of the Sudbury Structure (Ontario, Canada)." Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution, GSA Special Paper, 1994, pp. 293, and 348. ISBN 9780966586930.

Gazes, J., ed. Ewing's Analytical Instrumentation Handbook. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, c 2005.

French, B. M. Traces of Catastrophe. Houston, Tx: Lunar and Planetary Institute, LPI Contribution no. 954, 1998, p. 120.

Gault D. E. "Impact Cratering." In A Primer in Lunar Geology. Edited by R. Greeley and P. H. Shultz. Moffett Field, CA: NASA Ames Research Center, 1974, pp. 137-175.

Glass, B. J., S. Domville, and P. Lee. "Further Geophysical Studies of the Haughton Impact Structure." Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI (2005). (PDF)#

Grieve, R. A. F., and M. J. Cintala. "An Analysis of Differential Impact Melt-crater Scaling and Implications for the Terrestrial Impact Record." Meteoritics 27 (1992): 526-538.

Grauch, V. J. S. High-Resolution Aeromagnetic Survey to Image Shallow Faults, Dixie Valley Geothermal Field, Nevada, USGS Open File Report ofr-02-0384_508.pdf.

Grieve, R. A. F., and L. J. Pesonen. "The Terrestrial Impact Cratering Record." Tectonophysics 216 (1992): 1-30.

Holsapple, and Schmidt. "Point Source Solutions and Coupling Parameters in Cratering Mechanics." Journal of Geophysical Research 92 (1987): 6350-6376.

Ila, P., and P. Jagam. "Multielement Analysis of Food Spices by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis." Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 57 (1980): 205-210.

Jagam, P., and G. K. Muecke. "Instrumentation in Neutron Activation Analysis." Chapter IV in Mineralogical Association of Canada. Edited by G. K. Muecke. Short Course in Neutron Activation Analysis in the Geosciences, Halifax, CA, May 1980, pp. 73-108.

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Koeberl, C. "Impact Cratering: The Mineralogical and Geochemical Evidence." In proceedings "The Ames Structure and Similar Features." Vol. 100. Edited by K. Johnson and J. Campbell, Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 1997, pp. 30-54.

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Lundborg, N. "Strength of Rock-like Materials." Int J Rock Mech Min Sci 5 (1968): 427-454.

Amazon logo Mark, K. Meteorite Craters. Arizona, USA: The University of Arizona Press, 1987, p. 288. ISBN: 9780816509027.

Melosh, H. J. "Cratering Mechanics - Observational, Experimental, and Theoretical." The Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 (1980): 626.

———. "Impact Cratering Mechanics: Relationship between the Shock Wave and Excavation Flow." Icarus 62 (1985): 339-343.

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Morrison, R. H. Simulation of Meteoroid Velocity Impact by use of Dense Projectiles. NASA Technical Note TN - D5734, April 1970.

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Norman, M. D. "Sudbury Igneous Complex: Impact Melt or Endogenous Magma? Implications for Lunar Crustal Evolution." Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution. GSA Special Paper, 1994, pp. 293, and 348. ISBN: 096658693X.

O'Keefe, J. D., and T. J. Ahrens. "Impact-Induced Melting of Planetary Surfaces." Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution. GSA Special Paper 293, 1994, p. 348. ISBN: 096658693X.

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Pierazzo, E., and Melosh H. J. "Hydrocode Modeling of Oblique Impacts: The Fate of the Projectile." Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35 (2000a): 117-130.

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———. "Understanding Oblique Impacts from Experiments, Observations, and Modeling." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 28 (2000c): 141-167.

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Schmidt, R. M., and K. R. Housen. "Some Recent Advances in the Scaling of Impact and Explosion Cratering." International Journal of Impact Engineering 5 (1987): 543-560.

Schuraytz, B. C., V. L. Sharpton, and L. E. Marin. "Petrology of Impact-melt Rocks, at Chicxulub Multiring Basin, Yucatan, Mexico." Geology 22 (1994): 868-872. NASA-CR-203591.

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Stoffler, D., and A. Deutsch. "The Formation of the Sudbury Structure, Canada: Toward a Unified Impact Model." Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution. GSA Special Paper 293, 1994, p. 348. ISBN: 096658693X.

Session 4 References

Amazon logo Artemieva, N. A. "Tektite Origin in Oblique Impacts: Numerical Modeling of the Initial Stage." In Impacts in Precambrian Shields. Edited by J. Plado and Pesonen L. J. Berlin: Springer, 2003, pp. 257-276. ISBN: 9783540435174.

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Deutsch, A., and C. Koeberl. "Establishing the Link Between the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure and the North American Tektite Strewn Field: The Sr-Nd Isotopic Evidence." Meteoritics and Planetary Science 41, no. 5 (2006): 689-703.

Edwards L. E., J. W. Horton, Jr., and G. S. Gohn. "ICDP-USGS Workshop on Deep Drilling in the Central Crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, Virginia, USA: Proceedings volume." Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey, open-file report 2004-1016, CD-ROM.

Emry, S. R., and B. Miller. "Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure - 35 Million Years After - and Still Making An Impact." In Edwards, L. E., Horton, J. W., Jr., and Gohn, G. S., 2004, ICDP-USGS Workshop on Deep Drilling in the Central Crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, Virginia, USA, September 22-24, 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1016, CD-ROM.

Horn P., D. M¸ller-Sohnius, H. Kˆhler, and G. Graup. "Rb-Sr Systematics of Rocks Related to the Ries Crater, Germany." Earth and Planetary Science Letter 75 (1985): 384-392.

Glass B. P. "North American Tektite Debris and Impact Ejecta from DSDP Site 612." Meteoritics 24 (1989): 209-218.

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Horton, J. W., Jr., J. N. Aleinikoff, M. J. Kunk, G. S. Gohn, L. E. Edwards, J. M. Self-Trail, D. S. Powars, and G. S. Izett. "Recent Research on the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, USA - Impact Debris and Reworked Ejecta." In Large Meteorite Impacts III: Geological Society of America Special Paper 384, 2005a, pp. 147-170. Edited by T. Kenkmann, F. Hörz, and A. Deutsch.

Horton, J. W., Jr., D. S. Powars, and G. S. Gohn, eds. "Studies of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure - The USGS-NASA Langley Corehole, Hampton, Virginia, and Related Coreholes and Geophysical Surveys." U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1688-A-K, 2005b, p. 453.

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Koeberl C. "Tektite Origin by Hypervelocity Asteroidal or Cometary Impact: Target Rocks, Source Craters, and Mechanisms." In Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution. Edited by B. O. Dressler, R. A. F. Grieve, and V. L. Sharpton. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 1994, pp. 133-151.

Kettrup B., A. Deutsch, and V. L. Masaitis. "Homogeneous Impact Melts Produced by a Heterogeneous Target? Sr-Nd Isotopic Evidence from the Popigai Crater, Russia." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67 (2003): 733-750.

McFarland, E. R., and T. S. Bruce. "Distribution, Origin, and Resource-Management Implications of Ground-Water Salinity Along the Western Margin of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure in Eastern Virginia." In Studies of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure - The USGS-NASA Langley Corehole, Hampton, Virginia, and Related Coreholes and Geophysical Surveys: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1688. Edited by J. W. Horton, Jr., D. S. Powars, and G. S. Gohn. 2005, pp. K1-K32.

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Powars, D. S., and T. S. Bruce. The Effects of the ChesapeakeBay Impact Crater on the Geological Framework and Correlation of Hydrogeologic Units of the Lower York-James Peninsula, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1612, 1999, p. 82.

Powars, D. S. The Effects of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater on the Geological Framework and Correlation of Hydrogeologic Units of Southeastern Virginia, South of the James River: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 622, 2000, p. 53.

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Session 5 References


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