A TEM and EELS study of carbon in a melt fragment from the Gardnos impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Paula Lindgren, Lydia Hallis, Fredrik S. Hage, Martin R. Lee, John Parnell, Anders Plan, Alistair Doye, Ian MacLaren Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 29 August 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A carbon‐rich…
An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known evolved rocks
Tim E. Johnson, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Katarina Miljković, Christopher J. Spencer, Christopher L. Kirkland, Phil A. Bland & Hugh Smithies Nature Geoscience, Aug 13, 2018 LINK PDF “Earth’s oldest evolved (felsic) rocks, the 4.02-billion-year-old Idiwhaa…
Impact melting of the largest known enstatite meteorite: Al Haggounia 001, a fossil EL chondrite.
Rubin, A. E. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12679 LINK “Al Haggounia 001 and paired specimens (including Northwest Africa [NWA] 2828 and 7401) are part of a vesicular, incompletely melted, EL chondrite impact melt rock…
Target-projectile interaction during impact melting at Kamil Crater, Egypt
Agnese Fazio, Massimo D’Orazio, Carole Cordier, Luigi Folco Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 15 February 2016 LINK “In small meteorite impacts, the projectile may survive through fragmentation; in addition, it…
Impact Melting of CV and CM Chondrites
N. G. Lunning, C. M. Corrigan, H. Y. McSween, T. J. Tenner, N. T. Kita 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #2076 PDF LINK
Impact features of enstatite-rich meteorites
Alan E. Rubin Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2014.09.001 In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 December 2014 LINK
The extremely reduced silicate-bearing iron meteorite Northwest Africa 6583: Implications on the variety of the impact melt rocks of the IAB-complex parent body
Fazio, A., D’Orazio, M., Folco, L., Gattacceca, J. and Sonzogni, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 2451–2468. doi: 10.1111/maps.12231 LINK
Mineralogy, reflectance spectra, and physical properties of the Chelyabinsk LL5 chondrite – insight into shock-induced changes in asteroid regoliths
Kohout T, Gritsevich M, Grokhovsky VI, Yakovlev GA, Haloda J, Halodova P, Michallik RM, Penttilä A and Muinonen K Icarus Volume 228, 15 January 2014, Pages 78–85 LINK
