Four lunar mare meteorites: Crystallization trends of pyroxenes and spinels

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 877-892

  Arai, Tomoko ^a   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a   Warren, Paul H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; LUNAR METEORITE; PYROXENE; SPINEL;

EID: 0030427191     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1996.tb02121.x     Document Type: Article

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