Mega-chondrules and large, igneous-textured clasts in Julesberg (L3) and other ordinary chondrites: vapor-fractionation, shock-melting, and chondrule formation

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1419-1442

  Ruzicka, Alex ^a   Snyder, Gregory A ^a   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDRITE L3; CHONDRULE; JULESBERG METEORITE;

EID: 0031658590     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00029-5     Document Type: Article

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