Shock metals in QUE 94411, Hammadah al Hamra 237, and Bencubbin: Remains of the missing matrix?

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1377-1391

  Meibom, Anders ^a,h   Righter, Kevin ^b,f   Chabot, Nancy ^b,i   Dehn, Greg ^c,d   Antignano, Angelo ^d,e   McCoy, Timothy J ^d   Krot, Alexander N ^a   Zolensky, Michael E ^f   Petaev, Michael I ^g   Keil, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

ⁱ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE; METEORITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

EID: 29244482576     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00408.x     Document Type: Article

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