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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lester, W. Ryan
Other Authors: Geosciences
Format: Others
Published: 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/