Jan Smit

 
 

My research activities are in the field of upheavals in Earth history. I do active research in on the consequences of the Chicxulub impact on the peninsula of Yucatan at Cretaceous Tertiary boundary time.

Other research topics include:

Biotic effects on foraminifers following the K/T boundary impact. Cyclostratigraphy Maastrichtian-Paleogene

Impacts and tsunami deposits in the Gulf of Mexico at K/Pg time, impact-tsunami deposits, Pilbara, Australia and other suspected offshore tsunamites.


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Geologist, Paleontologist, Sedimentologist, Stratigrapher


DIRECTIONS

Room H-328, Faculty of Science

VU University Amsterdam

de Boelelaan 1085

1018HV Amsterdam

Telephone: +3120 59 87384


RESEARCH SUBJECTS

K/T boundary, Offshore tsunami deposits





links to images:

  1. 11.Dinosaur tooth in Chicxulub tsunamite, La Popa Basin, Mexico

  2. 22.perfect pseudomorph of a tektite in Dogie Creek, Wyoming

  3. 33.The K/Pg tsunamite at El Mulato, Nuevo leon, Mexico

  4. 44.Walter and me at he K/Pg exhibit in the park headquarters of the Mte Conero park, Ancona Italy

 

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