Determining chondrule size distributions from thin-section measurements

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-248

  Eisenhour, Don D ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; CHONDRITE; CHONDRULE; GRAIN SIZE DETERMINATION; THIN SECTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029750554     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1996.tb02019.x     Document Type: Article

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