Abstract The Antarctic meteorites are distributed on the blue-ice area surfaces in the ablation zone of the Antarctic ice-sheet, to where meteorites have been transported by the ice-flow within the ice-sheet from the wider accumulation zone. Among the Antarctic meteorite collection H- and L-chondrites are most abundant; this is also true in the non-Antarctic meteorite collection. Meteorite showers also are involved in the collection. Several new types of stony meteorites have been discovered from the Antarctic meteorite collection. The mass and shape of Antarctic meteorites are in agreement with those of resultant fragments of high-speed impact basaltic rocks. In Antarctica, small fragments of meteorite smaller than 1 kg in weight can easily be found and collected. The solidification and the gas retention ages of Antarctic meteorites also are concentrated around 4.5×109 years, but some of them are considerably younger. Their cosmic-ray exposure ages are extended up to 9×106 years and their terrestrial ages are 9×104-7×105 years.


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    Titel :

    Meteorites in Antarctica — Statistics on falls, concentration, recovery and alteration on ice-sheet


    Beteiligte:
    Nagata, T. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1983-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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