Sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial chromite traces a major asteroid disruption event

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5621, 2003, Pages 961-964

  Schmitz, Birger ^a,b   Häggström, Therese ^b   Tassinari, Mario ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Earth Sciences Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; EARTH (PLANET); EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; LIMESTONE; METEORITES;

ASTEROID DISRUPTIONS;

SEDIMENTS;

LIMESTONE;

ASTEROID; CHROMITE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL FEATURE; METEORITE; ORDOVICIAN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DECOMPOSITION; DISPERSION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

CHROMATES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINOR PLANETS; SWEDEN; TIME;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0038331659     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082182     Document Type: Article

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