Chondrites are leftover solids from the early evolution of solar protoplanetary disk that never experienced melting since their formation. They comprise unequilibrated assemblages low- and high-temperature components, including volatile-rich, fine-grained matrices, Fe-Ni metal, sulfides, refractory inclusions, chondrules. Consequently, chondrites commonly described as pristine, primitive, or pr...

In this   paper,  we   present  some  refinements  of the   famous Young  type  inequality.   As  application  of   our   result, we  obtain  some  matrix inequalities   for   the  Hilbert-Schmidt norm  and   the  trace   norm. The results    obtained   in  this  paper  can  be   viewed   as  refinement  of  the   derived  results   by  H.  Kai  [Young  type  inequalities  for matrices,  J.  Ea...

Introduction We investigated two processes in a series of the Hungarian L-chondrites: shock and thermal metamorphism. Thermal metamorphism transforms the textures in the relatively small chondritic planetary body. Shock metamorphism is caused by hypervelocity impact processes transforming texture and mineral structure mainly in the outermost layers of the chondritic planetary body [1,2]. The pu...

Northwest Africa (NWA) 5790 is the most recently discovered member of the nakhlite group. Its mineralogy differs from the other nakhlites with a high abundance mesostasis (38.1 3.6 vol%) and scarcity of olivine (4.0 2.2 vol%). Furthermore, zoning of augite phenocrysts, and other petrographic and chemical characteristics suggest that NWA 5790 samples the chilled margin of its parent lava flow/si...

This paper describes the PetroGrapher system, an intelligent database application to support petrographic analysis and interpretation of oil reservoir rocks, and also data management using resources both from knowledge system technology and database technology. In this project, the visual tacit knowledge applied in petrographic analysis was made explicit through the collection of cases (rock de...

Experimental, petrographic and numerical methods are used to explore the igneous evolution of the early solar system. Chapters 1 and 2 detail the results of petrographic and experimental studies of a suite of primitive achondritic meteorites, the ureilites. The first chapter presents data that reveal correlations between mineral modal proportions and mineral chemistry that are used to guide exp...

Depositional and post-depositional (diagenetic) processes control the distribution of porosity and permeability within petroleum reservoir rocks. The understanding of these controls is essential for the construction of models for the systematic characterization and prediction of the quality (porosity, permeability) of petroleum reservoirs during their exploration and production. The description...

The porosity exposed in a series of petrographic thin sections from a sub-arkosic sandstone reservoir of the Alwyn area (North Sea) is described by 5 morphological porous descriptors, Pore-Types, obtained by quantitative image analysis procedures and pattern recognition algorithms developed by Ehrlich et al. (1991a). By combining Pore-Type data with capillary pressure curves, we obtain prelimin...

INTRODUCTION The Fe-rich olivine end-member, fayalite (Fa100), occurs in the matrix, chondrules, CAIs, silicate aggregates, and dark inclusions in the oxidized Kaba and Mokoia CV3 chondrites, where it is associated with magnetite and troilite. To help constrain the origin of the fayalite, we measured O-isotope compositions of fayalite (Fa98-100) from two petrographic settings of the Kaba meteor...

anomolously low A1203, low Ti02 and are enriched in chromium and nick~A We present petrographic and chemical c ata on the Kamloops Lake picritic tmalts as we1 I as the stratigraphic setting for thwe ultramafic lavas. Age constraints derive From field relationships, Mineral chemistry indicates th 31 these ultramafic rocks represent mantle-deri.ed material which has undergone: minimal differentia...