The breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 466 Ma and its terrestrial effects – a search for a mid-Ordovician biodiversity event

About a third of all meteorites that fall on Earth today, the stony L-chondrites, originate from a major breakup event in the asteroid belt 466 Ma, in the early Darriwilian. This is the largest asteroid breakup in the past three billion years documented by K-Ar gas-retention ages of recently fallen...

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Main Authors: Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Estonian Academy Publishers 2023-06-01
Series:Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
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Online Access:https://kirj.ee/wp-content/plugins/kirj/pub/earth-1-2023-94-97_20230610113128.pdf