Extraterrestrial chromite in latest Maastrichtian and Paleocene pelagic limestone at Gubbio, Italy: The flux of unmelted ordinary chondrites

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2099-2109

  Cronholm, Anders ^a   Schmitz, Birger ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 43149102261     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb01010.x     Document Type: Article

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