Terrestrial ages of Antarctic meteorites: Implications for concentration mechanisms

• Main Author: Schultz, L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1986
• Subjects: ASTROPHYSICS; Allan Hills; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Yamato; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19860019355

Antarctic meteorites differ from meteorites fallen in other places in their mean terrestrial ages. Boeckl estimated the terrestrial half-life for the disintegration of stone meteorites by weathering under the climatic conditions of the Western United States to be about 3600 years. Antarctic meteorit...