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Merrillite from
Los Angeles Martian meteorite, California, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Origin locality:Mars
Classification
Species:Merrillite
Formula:Ca9NaMg(PO4)7
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Merrillite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Los Angeles Martian meteorite, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:932261
Long-form Identifier:1:3:932261:5
GUID (UUID V4):30b84e74-23f9-4f10-bbcc-00f43896b692
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
available online at http://meteoritics.org Los Angeles: A tale of two stones Paul H. WARREN,1* James...1Institute of Geophysics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095–1567, USA of Geology and Geophysics, Yale...Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520–8109, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail: pwarren@ucla.edu ...of the extremely ferroan and Cr-poor martian meteorite, Los Angeles. The 2 stones are similar in many characteristics...that caused the very scarce brecciation within Los Angeles. However, the low abundance of fractures within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ghilane 002 shergottite—The 100th registered Martian meteorite fragment Jordi LLORCA1,2*, Julia ROSZJAR3...Sciences, California Institute of Technology, MC 100-23, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, California 91125...91125, USA * Corresponding author. E-mail: jordi.llorca@upc.edu (Received 28 December 2011; revision accepted...a composition thought to be characteristic for Martian interior is a dominant component. Measurements...of 35–65 cm radius. KG 002 strongly resembles Los Angeles and NWA 2800 basaltic shergottites in element
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/epsl High-temperature Mars-to-Earth transfer of meteorite ALH84001 Kyoungwon Min a,⁎, Peter W. Reiners b...R.W. Carlson Abstract Martian meteorites provide crucial insights into Martian evolution and interplanetary...potential for exogenesis. ALH84001 is the oldest Martian meteorite discovered so far, and has been used to derive...derive important conclusions about Martian surface temperatures and very low-temperature Mars-to-Earth...thermochronometry to single grains of phosphate (merrillite) from ALH84001. The (U–Th)/He ages of individual
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States d Berkeley...obtained single-grain (U–Th)/He ages from 14 merrillite and ïŹve chlorapatite aggregates from St. Séverin...3He/4He stepped heating diïŹ€usion experiments for merrillite and chlorapatite crystals from Guareña chondrite...welldeïŹned linear trends in Arrhenius plot for merrillite (radius = 59 lm) and chlorapatite (43 lm) grains...kJ/mol, and ln(Do/a2) = 5.83 ± 0.66 ln(s 1) for merrillite; and Ea = 109.3 ± 9.7 kJ/mol, and ln(Do/a2) =
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EMP/SEM study of a three-phase symplectite in the Los Angeles basaltic shergottite Detlef ROST1†*, Thomas STEPHAN1‡...5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail: detlef.rost@manchester...frequently found rimming pyroxene in the Martian meteorite Los Angeles. This assemblage is usually interpreted...The basaltic shergottite Los Angeles is one of the most differentiated Martian meteorites, i.e., it is...1225 © The Meteoritical Society, 2009. Printed in USA. 1226 D. Rost et al. Fig. 1. Pyroxene quadrilateral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition of shock-induced melt pockets in the Los Angeles basaltic shergottite Erin L. WALTON * and John...of shock features in the basaltic shergottite Los Angeles (stone 1) reveals: 1) shock recorded in the bulk...front that induced bulk damage. INTRODUCTION Los Angeles is a basaltic shergottite, comprising two relatively...2000). Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd radiometric ages of the meteorite are 165 ± 11 and 172 ± 8 Ma, respectively, with...ejection age of ~3 Ma suggests that Los Angeles was launched from the martian surface at the same time as the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
online at http://meteoritics.org Helium loss from Martian meteorites mainly induced by shock metamorphism:...Institute, 3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, Texas 77058, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail: schwenzer@lpi.usra...accepted 25 June 2008) Abstract–Noble gas data from Martian meteorites have provided key constraints about...and Earth. Influences on the helium budgets of Martian meteorites were evaluated by using a new data set...shock pressures for same sample aliquots of 13 Martian meteorites were determined to asses a possible
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A19-Al80 (6 Meteoritical Society. 2000. Printed in USA. A19 (2000) Abstracts DHOFAR 007 AND NORTHWEST...(Dhofar 007) and noncumulated (NWA 011). Results: A meteorite shower, 37 pieces weighing a total of 21,270 g...REE pattern supports a cumulate type of this meteorite also. At the other side the data of NWA 011 are...REE pattern supports a noncumulate type of this meteorite. Thus, these two meteorites belong to different...Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771,USA (xr2aa@Iepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov), 2Department of Chemistry
Report (volume)
thermochronologic approaches to understanding meteorite thermal histories (Chapter 21), including new...mountainous topography in the Basin and Ranges, USA. Basin Res 11:21-41 Evemden JF, Curtis GH, Kistler...of landscape evolution in the Sierra Nevada, California, revealed by cosmogenic dating of cave sediments...Solids: Principles and Applications. University of California Press, Berkeley Galbraith RF (1981) On statistical...depth (~135 °C present-day temperature) from the Los Alamos, New Mexico, geothermal test wells 1 and 2
Book
University, Cambridge, MA, USA Karl K. Turekian Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA VOLUME 1 METEORITES AND...Andrew M. Davis University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN...OX5 1GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA First edition 2003 Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd...Karl K. Turekian, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA This Obituary was first published in Eos, Vol. 93...it, it was just at this time that the Allende meteorite fell and the minerals contained within the so-called
Book
Truran, Jr. and A. Heger University of Chicago, IL, USA 1.01.1 INTRODUCTION 1.01.2 ABUNDANCES AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS...K. Zinner Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA 1.02.1 INTRODUCTION 1.02.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND...grains (Hoppe et al., 1995) from the Murchison meteorite are compared to astronomical measurements of the...bulk samples of SiC extracted from the Murchison meteorite. Isotopic ratios are relative to the reference...result of isotopic equilibration, either on the meteorite parent body or in the laboratory. Apparently,
Book
Truran, Jr. and A. Heger University of Chicago, IL, USA 1.01.1 INTRODUCTION 1.01.2 ABUNDANCES AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS...K. Zinner Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA 1.02.1 INTRODUCTION 1.02.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND...grains (Hoppe et al., 1995) from the Murchison meteorite are compared to astronomical measurements of the...bulk samples of SiC extracted from the Murchison meteorite. Isotopic ratios are relative to the reference...result of isotopic equilibration, either on the meteorite parent body or in the laboratory. Apparently,
 
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