Main-group pallasites: Thermal history, relationship to IIIAB irons, and origin

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4471-4492

  Yang, Jijin ^a   Goldstein, Joseph I ^a   Scott, Edward R D ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IRON METEORITE; METALLOGENESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARENT BODY; PETROGRAPHY; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; REGOLITH; STONY METEORITE; TAENITE;

EID: 77954027471     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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