Transformation textures, mechanisms of formation of high-pressure minerals in shock melt veins of L6 chondrites, and pressure-temperature conditions of the shock events

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1771-1786

  Ozawa, Shin ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Miyahara, Masaaki ^a   Suzuki, Akio ^a   Kimura, Makoto ^b   Ito, Yoshinori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 76749136784     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb01206.x     Document Type: Article

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