Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the micrometeorite collection from the Sør Rondane Mountains: Nature and origin of the extraterrestrial flux to Earth

• Main Author: Soens, Bastien
• Other Authors: Debaille, Vinciane, Goderis, Steven, Claeys, Philippe, Gao, Yue, Mattielli, Nadine, Folco, Luigi, Schmitz, Birger
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2021
• Subjects: Géologie et minéralogie; Géologie; oxygen isotopes; atmospheric effects; isotopes d'oxygènes; effets atmosphériques; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; Transantarctic Mountains; Sør-Rondane; Sør Rondane Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/331729; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/331729/5/ContratDiSoens.pdf; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/331729/3/PhDBastienSoensSeptember2021.pdf; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/331729/4/TableOfContentsBastienSoens.pdf

The Antarctic continent has traditionally been a successful searching ground for meteoritic material due to its cold and dry climate. Meteorites, and their microscopic analogues micrometeorites, were originally sampled from Antarctic ice and snow. Recently, however, a large collection of micrometeor...