Rapid Methods of Determining Cooling Rates of Iron and Stony Iron Meteorites
- 7 April 1967
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 156 (3771), 59-61
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.156.3771.59
Abstract
Two rapid and simple methods have been developed for determining the approximate cooling rates of iron and stony-iron meteorites in which kamacite formed by diffusion-controlled growth along planar fronts. The first method requires only measurements of the mean kamacite bandwidth and the bulk nickel content. The second method requires the determination of the nickel composition near the taenite-kamacite interface with an electron microprobe.Keywords
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