Disruption of the L chondrite parent body: New oxygen isotope evidence from Ordovician relict chromite grains

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 204-213

  Greenwood, R C ^a   Schmitz, B ^b   Bridges, J C ^d   Hutchison, R ^c   Franchi, I A ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fossil meteorites; Golvsten 001 meteorite; L chondrite parent body; L chondrites; meteorite classification; ordinary chondrites; Ordovician meteorites; oxygen isotopes; relict chromite grains; Thorsberg quarry

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL METEORITES; L CHONDRITES; ORDOVICIAN METEORITES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; THORSBERG QUARRY;

CHROMITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

METEORITES;

CHONDRITE; CHROMITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORITE; ORDOVICIAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PARENT BODY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 34548858157     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.048     Document Type: Article

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