The role of undercooling in producing igneous zoning trends in pyroxenes and maskelynites among basaltic Martian meteorites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-256

  Mikouchi, Takashi ^a,b   Miyamoto, Masamichi ^a   McKay, Gordon A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Mars; Martian meteorites; Maskelynite; Pyroxene group

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; MARS; MARTIAN METEORITE; MINERAL ZONING; PYROXENE;

EID: 0033619581     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00188-0     Document Type: Article

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