Tuite

Occurrence of tuite and ahrensite in Zagami and their significance for shock-histories recorded in martian meteorites

02/06/2022 15:56 · by karmaka · in martian, shergottite, shock metamorphism

Lixin Gu; Sen Hu; Mahesh Anand; Xu Tang; Jianglong Ji; Bin Zhang; Nian Wang; Yangting Lin American Mineralogist (2022) 107 (6): 1018–1029. LINK “We report on the discovery of two high-pressure minerals, tuite and ahrensite,…

An occurrence of tuite, γ-Ca3(PO4)2, partly transformed from Ca-phosphates in the Suizhou meteorite

07/12/2015 19:47 · by karmaka · in L, ordinary chondrite

Xie, X., Gu, X. and Chen, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12577 LINK “Tuite is a high-pressure γ-form of Ca3(PO4)2. An occurrence of tuite partly transformed from merrillite and chlorapatite was observed in the…