Mineralogical study of brown olivine in Northwest Africa 1950 shergottite and implications for the formation mechanism of iron nanoparticles
· by karmaka · in martian, shergottite, shock metamorphism
Atsushi Takenouchi, Takashi Mikouchi and Toshihiro Kogure Meteorit Planet Sci. doi:10.1111/maps.12949 First published: 29 August 2017 LINK “Martian meteorites, in particular shergottites, contain darkened olivine (so-called “brown olivine”) whose color is induced by iron nanoparticles…