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Mineralogical study of brown olivine in Northwest Africa 1950 shergottite and implications for the formation mechanism of iron nanoparticles

30/08/2017 06:47 · 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…