The classification and reconnaisance petrography o of basaltic achondrites from the Yamato 1979 collection including pigeonite cumulate eucrites,a new group

• Main Authors: Jeremy S. Delaney, C. O'neill, C.E. Nehru, M. Prinz, C. Stokes, Hideyasu Kojima, Keizo Yanai
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Mineral Sciences, American Museum of Natural History/Department of Mineral Sciences, American Museum of Natural History/Department of Mineral Sciences, American Museum of Natural History/Department of Mineral Sciences, American Museum of Natural History/Department of Mineral Sciences, American Museum of Natural History/National Institute of Polar Research/National Institute of Polar Research 1984
• Subjects: Yamato; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1718; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001718/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1718&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Eighteen Yamato basaltic achondrites have been examined and preliminary descriptions are given. They include eucrites, polymict eucrites, howardites and a new group of pyroxene-rich meteorites here described as pigeonite cumulate eucrites. Most of these meteorites are similar to previously known bas...