Mineralogy of Tagish Lake: An ungrouped type 2 carbonaceous chondrite

• Published in: Meteoritics & Planetary Science
• Main Authors: Zolensky, M. E., Nakamura, K., Gounelle, M., Mikouchi, T., Kasama, T., Tachikawa, O., Tonui, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Tagish; Tagish Lake
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00852.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1945-5100.2002.tb00852.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00852.x

Abstract— In this paper we describe the recovery, handling and preliminary mineralogical investigation of the Tagish Lake meteorite. Tagish Lake is a type 2 carbonaceous chondrite which bears similarities to CI1 and CM chondrite groups, but is distinct from both. Abundant phyllosilicates as well as...