The Gao-Guenie impact melt breccia-Sampling a rapidly cooled impact melt dike on an H chondrite asteroid?

The Gao-Guenie H5 chondrite that fell on Burkina Faso (March 1960) has portions that were impact-melted on an H chondrite asteroid at similar to 300 Ma and, through later impact events in space, sent into an Earth-crossing orbit. This article presents a petrographic and electron microprobe analysis...

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Main Authors: Swindle, Timothy D., Schmieder, Martin, Kring, David A., Bond, Jade C., Moore, Carleton B.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab
Language:en
Published: WILEY-BLACKWELL 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621226
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621226