A petrological, mineralogical, and chemical analysis of the lunar mare basalt meteorite LaPaz Icefield 02205, 02224, and 02226

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1003-1025

  Joy, Katherine H ^a,b,c   Crawford, Ian A ^a   Downes, Hilary ^a   Russell, Sara S ^b   Kearsley, Anton T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUNAR METEORITE; MINERALOGY; PETROLOGY;

EID: 33747106513     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00500.x     Document Type: Article

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