A composite Fe,Ni-FeS and enstatite-forsterite-diopside-glass vitrophyre clast in the Larkman Nunatak 04316 aubrite: Origin by pyroclastic volcanism

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1719-1741

  Keil, Klaus ^a   Mccoy, Timothy J ^b   Wilson, Lionel ^a,c   Barrat, Jean Alix ^d   Rumble, Doug ^e   Meier, Matthias M M ^f   Wieler, Rainer ^f   Huss, Gary R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 80155202819     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01261.x     Document Type: Article

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