Compositions of Partly Altered Olivine and Replacement Serpentine in the Cm2 Chondrites Que93005 and Nogoya: Implications for Scales of Elemental Redistribution during Aqueous Alteration
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CHONDRITES QUE93005 AND NOGOYA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCALES OF ELEMENTAL REDISTRIBUTION DURING AQUEOUS ALTERATION. M. A. Velbel1, E.K. Tonui2, and M.E. Zolensky3, 1Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115 ([email protected]), 2Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 3Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003