Mineralogy and noble-gas signatures of the carbonate-rich lithology of the Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrite: Evidence for an accretionary breccia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 207, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 83-101

  Nakamura, Tomoki ^a   Noguchi, Takaaki ^b   Zolensky, Michael E ^c   Tanaka, Masahiko ^d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary breccia; Carbonate rich lithology; Mineralogy; Noble gases; Tagish Lake

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; BRECCIA; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE; CARBONATE; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; NOBLE GAS;

CANADA; TAGISH LAKE;

EID: 0037470420     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01127-5     Document Type: Article

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