Detrital shocked zircon provides first radiometric age constraint (<1472 Ma) for the Santa Fe impact structure, New Mexico, USA
The Santa Fe structure in northern New Mexico is one of the few confirmed impact craters in the western USA. The history of the impact structure is obscure as it is tectonized and eroded to the extent that an intact crater is not preserved, and what remains is located in a complex geological setting...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Geological Society of America
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72579 |