Postimpact Deformation Associated with the Late Eocene Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure in Southeastern Virginia
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Article
Publication Date
1998
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0507:PDAWTL>2.3.CO;2
Abstract
Upper Cenozoic strata covering the Chesapeake Bay impact structure in southeastern Virginia record intermittent differential movement around its buried rim. Miocene strata in a graben detected by seismic surveys on the York River exhibit variable thickness and are deformed above the crater rim. Fan-like interformational and intraformational angular unconformities within Pliocene-Pleistocene strata, which strike parallel to the crater rim and dip 2°-3° away from the crater center, indicate that deformation and deposition were synchronous. Concentric, large-scale crossbedded, bioclastic sand bodies of Pliocene age within ∼20 km of the buried crater rim formed on offshore shoals, presumably as subsiding listric slump blocks rotated near the crater rim.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Geology, v. 26, issue 6, p. 507-510
Scholar Commons Citation
Johnson, Gerard H.; Kruse, Sarah; Vaughn, Allison W.; Lucey, John K.; Hobbs, Carl H. III; and Powars, David S., "Postimpact Deformation Associated with the Late Eocene Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure in Southeastern Virginia" (1998). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 935.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/935
