Major and trace element compositions of melt particles and associated phases from the Yaxcopoil-1 drill core, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1361-1379

  Tuchscherer, Martin G ^a,b   Reimold, W Uwe ^a,c   Gibson, Roger L ^a   De Bruin, Deon ^d   Späth, Andreas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Caracle Creek International Consulting Inc   (South Africa)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; IMPACT STRUCTURE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METEORITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 33749249955     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00527.x     Document Type: Article

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