Thermal and shock metamorphic features and terrestrial weathering in opaque minerals of some Antarctic ordinary chondrites recovered by Italian expeditions to Frontier Mountain

• Main Authors: MARAS, Adriana, MACRI', MICHELE
• Other Authors: Maras, Adriana, Macri', Michele
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Massimo Frezzotti & Valter Maggi Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide Felice Ippolito Sezione Scienze della Terra, Università di Siena Via del Laterino 8, 53100 Siena Fax [phone], Tel. [phone] 2003
• Subjects: ordinary chondrite; opaque mineral; shock features; Antarctic; Frontier Mountain; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/20829

We studied opaque phases present in twenty-five H-chondrites, two L-chondrites and two LL-chondrites recovered by Italian Expeditions to Frontier Mountain. Petrologic types varying from 3 to 6 according to Van Schmus & Wood (1967) and shock stages ranging from S1 to S5 according to Stoeffler et...