Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8913679 | Journal of African Earth Sciences | 2018 | 60 Pages |
Abstract
A few spherules show botryoidal devitrification textures interpreted to result from rapid cooling/devitrification of former melt droplets. SL 15Â at a depth of 145Â m is unique in being the only grain-size sorted SL; this bed may have been deposited by fallout through a water column. The SL and their host rocks can be easily distinguished by their significant differences in micro-XRF elemental distribution maps. Depending on which aspects of the SLs are primarily considered (such as similar geochemistry, similar layering, SL occurrences abundant at three different depth intervals), the 17 CT3 SLs can be assigned to three or up to 13 individual impact events. Uncertainty about the actual number of impact events represented remains, however, due to the complex folding deformation observed throughout the drill core.
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Authors
Desirée Hoehnel, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Uwe Altenberger, Axel Hofmann, Tanja Mohr-Westheide, Seda Ãzdemir, Christian Koeberl,