Discovery of Coesite and Significance of High Pressure Phases in the Gujba Cb Chondrite
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CHONDRITE. M. K. Weisberg, M. Kimura, A. Suzuki, E. Ohtani and N. Sugiura Department of Physical Sciences, Kingsborough College And Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11235, 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY10024, USA, [email protected]. Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japan, Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
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