Portales Valley: Petrology of a metallic-melt meteorite breccia

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 261-295

  Ruzicka, Alex ^a   Killgore, Marvin ^b   Mittlefehldt, David W ^c   Fries, Marc D ^d  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southwest Meteorite Laboratory   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; METEORITE; PETROLOGY;

EID: 18844434622     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00380.x     Document Type: Review

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