Extraterrestrial chromite in Middle Ordovician marine limestone at Kinnekulle, southern Sweden - Traces of a major asteroid breakup event

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 455-466

  Schmitz, Birger ^a   Häggström, Therese ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; CHROMITE; LIMESTONE; METEORITE; ORDOVICIAN; QUARRY; SPINEL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; KINNEKULLE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 33646131627     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00473.x     Document Type: Article

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