Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

About 435 mineral species have been identified in meteorites including native elements,
metals and metallic alloys, carbides, nitrides and oxynitrides, phosphides, silicides, sulfides …

Dynamic models of the protoplanetary disk indicate there should be large-scale material
transport in and out of the inner Solar System, but direct evidence for such transport is …

Meteorite breccias provide information about impact processes on planetary bodies, their
collisional evolution and structure. Fragmental and regolith breccias are abundant in both …

Chondrules from unequilibrated ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites belong to the oldest
and most primitive materials from the early solar system and record chemical and isotopic …

The analytical technique of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR,) is based on coherent
quantum mechanical superposition of nuclear spin states. Recently, NMR has received …

Amoeboid olivine aggregates (AOAs) are the most common type of refractory inclusions in
CM, CR, CH, CV, CO, and ungrouped carbonaceous chondrites Acfer 094 and Adelaide; …

The relative abundances and chemical compositions of the macroscopic components or
“inclusions”(chondrules and refractory inclusions) and fine-grained mineral matrix in …

Crystallization experiments on liquids with compositions similar to those of compact Type A,
Type B1 and Type B2 refractory inclusions were conducted under controlled temperature …

A growing number of elements show well-resolved nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies in
bulk-rock samples of solar system materials. In order to establish the occurrence and extent …