Iron meteorites: Crystallization, thermal history, parent bodies, and origin

Chemie der Erde

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 293-325

  Goldstein, J I ^a   Scott, E R D ^b   Chabot, N L ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical groups; Cooling rates; Crystallization; Fractional crystallization; Iron meteorites; Magmatic; Parent bodies; Widmanst tten pattern

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; CHONDRITE; COOLING; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IMPACT; IRON METEORITE; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; PARENT BODY;

EID: 71749101307     PISSN: 00092819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemer.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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