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Measuring metamorphic history of unequilibrated ordinary chondrites

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A thermoluminescence sensitivity technique is used to give a new measurement of the degree of metamorphism of unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Consequently the petrological assignment of these meteorites is modified.

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  1. C. L. Melcher

    Present address: W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory 106–38, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125

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  1. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024

    D. W. Sears & J. N. Grossman

  2. McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, 63130

    C. L. Melcher & L. M. Ross

  3. Departments of Astronomy and Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    A. A. Mills

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Sears, D., Grossman, J., Melcher, C. et al. Measuring metamorphic history of unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Nature 287, 791–795 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/287791a0

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