The White Angel: A unique wollastonite-bearing, mass-fractionated refractory inclusion from the Leoville CV3 carbonaceous chondrite

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1159-1182

  Caillet Komorowski, Catherine L V ^a,d   Zinner, Ernst K ^b   McKeegan, Kevin D ^c   Hervig, Rick ^d   Buseck, Peter R ^d,e  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 36348985410     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00567.x     Document Type: Article

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