Petrography and shock-related remagnetization of pyrrhotite in drill cores from the Bosumtwi Impact Crater Drilling Project, Ghana

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 811-827

  Kontny, Agnes ^a   Elbra, Tiiu ^b   Just, Jana ^a   Pesonen, Lauri J ^b   Schleicher, Anja M ^c   Zolk, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 34250643137     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb01077.x     Document Type: Article

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