Parauapebas meteorite from Pará, Brazil, a “hammer” breccia chondrite
Abstract The Parauapebas meteorite, third official meteorite discovered in the Brazilian Amazon region, is a “hammer meteorite” which fell on December 9th, 2013, in the city of Parauapebas, Pará State, Brazil. Mineralogy is dominated by forsterite, enstatite, iron, troilite, and tetrataenite. Albite...
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Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
2020-08-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Geology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2317-48892020000300305&tlng=en |