The end-Cretaceous mass extinction and the Chicxulub impact in Texas
By: edited by Gerta Keller, Thierry Adatte
Series: SEPM special publication -- no. 100; Special publication (SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)) -- no. 100.
Publisher: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tulsa, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781565763081; 9781565763098
Subjects: Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary; Stratigraphic Geology; Geology; Mass extinctions
Notes: Includes digital version on 1 CD/DVD in pocket.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dedication to Ronnie and Jackie Mullinax of the Brazos Rose Ranch; title: Preface / Gerta Keller and Thierry Adatte; title: The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction : theories and controversies / Gerta Keller; title: Defining the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary : a practical guide and return to first principles / Gerta Keller; title: Age and origin of the Chicxulub impact and sandstone complex, Brazos River, Texas : evidence from lithostratigraphy and sedimentology / Thierry Adatte, Gerta Keller, and Gerald R. Baum; title: Biostratigraphy, age of Chicxulub impact, and depositional environment of the Brazos River KTB sequences / Gerta Keller ... [et al.]; title: Maastrichtian planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of Brazos River, Falls County, Texas, U.S.A. / Sigal Abramovich ... [et al.]; title: Calcareous nannofossils across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Brazos, Texas, U.S.A. : extinction and survivorship, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology / Abdel Aziz Tantawy; title: The distribution of benthic foraminifera across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in Texas (Brazos River) and Denmark (Stevns Klint) / Malcolm B. Hart ... [et al.]; title: Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction in marginal and open marine environments : Texas, U.S.A., and Tunisia / Gerta Keller; title: Platinum group element (PGE) geochemistry of Brazos sections, Texas, U.S.A. / Brian Gertsch ... [et al.]; title: Trace-element geochemistry of Brazos sections, Texas, U.S.A. / Brian Gertsch ... [et al.]; title: The sandstone complex in the Brazos riverbed section : geochemical constraints on genesis and depositional conditions / Dirk Munsel, Zsolt Berner, and Doris Stuben; title: Geochemistry of Chicxulub impact spherules in the Brazos riverbed section, Texas, U.S.A. / Patrick Ullrich, Zsolt Berner, and Utz Kramar.