Thermal History of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater

Anomalously high groundwater salinities exist within the syn-impact sediment of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, including an unexplained brine. This brine may be the result of phase-separation of seawater that occurred within the syn-impact sediments as underlying deformed and possibly melted base...

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Main Author: Harvey, Samuel Vernon
Other Authors: Geosciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9980
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06092004-173945