High-pressure phases in an ultramafic rock from Mars

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 619-623

  Fritz, Jörg ^a   Greshake, Ansgar ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chassigny; high pressure phase; martian meteorite; ringwoodite; shock metamorphism

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DEPTHS; EARTH'S MANTLE; FERROPERICLASE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASIS; MARTIAN METEORITES; MARTIAN SURFACE; MINERAL PHASIS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PRE-IMPACT; PRESSURE RELEASE; RINGWOODITE; SHOCK COMPRESSIONS; SHOCK PRESSURE; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMATIONS; TIME-SCALES; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; WADSLEYITE;

CALCIUM; CHROMITE; METEOR IMPACTS; METEORITES; OXIDE MINERALS; PARAFFIN WAXES; PEROVSKITE; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

METALLIC GLASS;

CHROMITE; CRATER; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; MARS; MARTIAN METEORITE; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION; RINGWOODITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; TRANSFORMATION; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; WADSLEYITE;

EID: 70449705793     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.030     Document Type: Article

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