Portales Valley: A meteoritic sample of the brecciated and metal-veined floor of an impact crater on an H-chondrite asteroid

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 663-669

  Kring, David A ^a   Hill, Dolores H ^a   Gleason, James D ^a   Britt, Daniel T ^a   Consolmagno, Guy J ^b   Farmer, Mike ^c   Wilson, Skip ^c   Haag, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDRITE; METEORITE; MINERALIZATION; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

NEW MEXICO; PORTALES VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033165725     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01372.x     Document Type: Article

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