Antarctic Meteorite Petrographic Description

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Sample Petrographic Description

Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MET 01210

Field Photo(s) :

Field photo image(s) courtesy of the ANSMET (ANtarctic Search for METeorites) Program, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Utah

Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MET 01210
Lab Photo(s) :

Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MET 01210
Thin Section Photo(s) :

References for Sample MET01210
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Herzog, G.F., Caffee, M.W., and Jull, A.J.T., 2015, Cosmogenic Nuclides in Antarctic Meteorites. In Righter, K., Corrigan, C.M., McCoy, T.J., and Harvey, R.P. Meteorites: A Pictorial Guide to the Collection, First Edition, AGU Wiley, pp. 153-172.
Calzada-Diaz, A., Joy, K. H., Crawford, I. A., Nordheim, T. A., 2015, Constraining the source regions of lunar meteorites using orbital geochemical data. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50, 214-228.
Grady, M.M., Pratesi G., and Moggi Cecchi, V., 2014, Atlas of Meteorites, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 384 p..
Fritz, J., 2012, Impact ejection of lunar meteorites and the age of Giordano Bruno. Icarus, 221 Issue 2, November-December 2012, 1183-1186, ISSN 0019-1035, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.019.
Joy, K. H., Crawford, I. A., Russell, S. S., Kearsley, A. T., 2010, Lunar meteorite regolith breccias: An in situ study of impact melt composition using LA-ICP-MS with implications for the composition of the lunar crust. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45, 917-946, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01067.x.
Rochette, P., Gattacceca, J., Ivanov, A. V., Nazarov, M. A., Bezaeva, N. S., 2010, Magnetic properties of lunar materials: Meteorites, Luna and Apollo returned samples. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 292 Issues 3-4, 1-Apr-10, 383-391, ISSN 0012-821X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.007.
Arai, T., Hawke, B. R., Giguere, T. A., Kojima, H., Misawa, K., Miyamoto, M., 2010, Antarctic lunar meteorites Yamato-793169, Asuka-881757, MIL 05035, and MET 01210 (YAMM): Launch pairing and possible cryptomare origin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74 Issue 7, 1-Apr-10, 2231-2248, ISSN 0016-7037, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2009.11.019.
Korotev, R. L., Zeigler, R. A., Jolliff, B. L., Irvin, A. J., Bunch, T. E., 2009, Compositional and lithological diversity among brecciated lunar meteorites of intermediate iron concentration. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 44, 1287-1322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb01223.x.
Terada, K., Sasaki, Y., Anand, M., Joy, K. H., Sano, Y., 2007, Uranium-lead systematics of phosphates in lunar basaltic regolith breccia Meteorite Hills 01210. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 259 Issues 1-2, 7/15/07, 77-84, ISSN 0012-821X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.029.
Day, J. M. D., Floss, C., Taylor, L. A., Anand, M., Patchen, A. D., 2006, Evolved mare basalt magmatism, high Mg/Fe feldspathic crust, chondritic impactors, and the petrogenesis of Antarctic lunar breccia meteorites Meteorite Hills 01210 and Pecora Escarpment 02007. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70 Issue 24, 15-Dec-06, 5957-5989, ISSN 0016-7037, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2006.05.001.