Isotopic signatures of black tektites from the K-T boundary on Haiti - Implications for the age and type of source material

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Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992metic..27..413p&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 27, no. 4, p. 413-423.

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Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, Isotopes, Mineralogy, Tektites, Earth Crust, Haiti, Rocks

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An isotopic study was carried out to characterize the type of black tektites from the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary on Haiti (the first reasonably well-preserved impact-derived material recovered from the K-T boundary), in order to help characterize the tektite source material (i.e., the type of rocks that were melted and ejected during the impact event(s) at around 64.5 Ma). Results show that the isotopic data and all of the element concentration data obtained are consistent with an andesitic-dacitic composition for the tektites and their source material. The Nd isotopic data suggest that the source rocks were not older than Silurian (T(chur) = 400 Ma) in age, and were composed largely of young (less than 1080 Ma) crustal material. Of the suspected K-T boundary impact sites, both the Manson (Iowa) and Chicxulub (Yucatan) structures occur in suitable lithologies to yield the Haitian black tektites.

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