Age and temperature of shock metamorphism of Martian meteorite Los Angeles from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 677-680

  Min, Kyoungwon ^a   Reiners, Peter W ^a   Nicolescu, Stefan ^a   Greenwood, James P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorapatite; Diffusion; Helium; Los Angeles martian meteorite; Merrillite; Shock metamorphism

Indexed keywords

IMPACT CRATERS; SHOCK METAMORPHISMS; CHLORAPATITES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL; INITIAL TEMPERATURES; MARTIAN METEORITES; MERRILLITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; METEORITES; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; HELIUM; METEOR IMPACTS; SILICA; THORIUM COMPOUNDS;

GEOLOGY; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

MARTIAN METEORITE; METEORITE; SHERGOTTITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; CHLORAPATITE; CRATER; DIFFUSION; HELIUM; MARS; PHOSPHATE; STISHOVITE; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 4344635734     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20510.1     Document Type: Article

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