Jiddat al Harasis 556: A howardite impact melt breccia with an H chondrite component

Authors :: Emilie Janots
Beda A. Hofmann
Ian A. Franchi
Richard C. Greenwood
V. Netwing
K. R. Bermingham
Edwin Gnos
Source :: Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 47:1558-1574
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: Wiley, 2012.
Abstract: – A petrographic and geochemical study was undertaken to characterize Jiddat al Harasis (JaH) 556, a howardite find from the Sultanate of Oman. JaH 556 is a polymict impact melt breccia containing highly shocked clasts, including mosaicized olivine and recrystallized plagioclase, set in a finely recrystallized vesicular matrix (grain diameter

Subjects :: Olivine
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Howardite
Geochemistry
Chondrule
Mineralogy
engineering.material
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Isotopes of oxygen
Geophysics
Meteorite
Space and Planetary Science
Chondrite
Breccia
engineering
Plagioclase
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences

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