Microtextures and crystal chemistry of pigeonite in the ureilites ALHA77257, RKPA80239, Y-791538, and ALHA81101

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 979-988

  Tribaudino, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; PIGEONITE; TEXTURE; UREILITE;

EID: 33747104807     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00498.x     Document Type: Article

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