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The Chesapeake Bay Crater

Geology and Geophysics of a Late Eocene Submarine Impact Structure

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  1. C. Wylie Poag

    1. U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, USA

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  2. Christian Koeberl

    1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Wolf Uwe Reimold

    1. School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • This book presents a detailed analysis of structure, morphology, impact deposits, and micropaleontology of the Chesapeake Bay structure, a comparison with other terrestrial craters, a conceptual model and computer simulation of the impact.

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Impact Studies (IMPACTSTUD)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 1-39

  3. Geological Framework of Impact Site

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 41-72

  4. Geophysical Framework of Impact Site

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 73-89

  5. The Primary Crater

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 91-151

  6. Secondary Craters

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 153-170

  7. Synimpact Crater-Fill Deposits

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 171-253

  8. Initial Postimpact Deposits

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 255-277

  9. Age of Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 279-286

  10. Geological Consequences of Chesapeake Bay Impact

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 287-300

  11. Comparisons with Other Impact Craters

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 301-341

  12. Comparisons Between Impactites

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 343-363

  13. Implications for Impact Models

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 365-386

  14. Biospheric Effects of Chesapeake Bay Impact

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 387-432

  15. Residual Effects of Chesapeake Bay Impact

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 433-446

  16. Summary and Conclusions

    • C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold
    Pages 447-451

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 453-523
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About this book

" . . . bangs have replaced whimpers and the geological record has become much more exciting than it was thought to be. " Derek Ager (1993) The New Catastro­ phism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p xix Scientific and public interest in asteroids, comets, and meteorite impacts has never been more intense than right now. Much of this interest stems from the fervent debates surrounding the causes of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinctions and their possible relationships to a giant bolide impact in Mexico's Yucatan Penin­ sula. Recent spectacular impacts on Jupiter, and several near misses of our own planet by Near-Earth Objects have intensified professional and popular discussion of society's imperative need to understand the process and effects of bolide im­ pacts. In the United States, the scientific community and the public, as well, were startled to learn, in 1994, that the largest impact structure in this country had been detected beneath Virginia's portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Seismic surveys and deep coring revealed a huge crater, 85 kilometers in diameter and more than a kilometer deep, stretching from Yorktown, Virginia, to 15 kilometers out onto the shallow continental shelf. Several of Virginia's major population centers, includ­ ing Norfolk, Hampton, and Newport News, are located on the western rim of the crater, and still experience residual effects of the original collision, 36 million years after the impact took place. Exploration and documentation of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure has proceeded in three phases.
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Keywords

  • Chespeake Bay
  • Eocene
  • Impact Breccia
  • Impact Crater
  • Virginia
  • geophysics
  • impact structure
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Authors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, USA

    C. Wylie Poag

  • Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Koeberl

  • School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Wolf Uwe Reimold

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Chesapeake Bay Crater

  • Book Subtitle: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Eocene Submarine Impact Structure

  • Authors: C. Wylie Poag, Christian Koeberl, Wolf Uwe Reimold

  • Series Title: Impact Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18900-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40441-5Published: 09 September 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62347-9Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-18900-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1612-8338

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 523

  • Topics: Geomorphology, Geology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics

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