Structure of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater from Wide-Angle Seismic Waveform Tomography
The Chesapeake Bay impact structure is one of the largest and most well preserved impact structures on Earth. It has a unique morphology composed of an inner crater penetrating crystalline basement surrounded by a wider crater in the overlying sediments. In 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35090 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09172006-145835/ |