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Spring 2010
The <1,130 year old Whitecourt Meteorite Impact Crater, located several kilometres south of Whitecourt, Alberta (Canada), is a well-preserved bowl-shaped structure having a depth and diameter of ~6 m and 36 m. There are less than a dozen known terrestrial sites of similar size and age. Unlike...
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Martian near-surface materials in shergottite meteorites: Searching for evidence from Tissint shock-melt pockets
DownloadSpring 2016
Three thin sections of the Tissint Martian meteorite were examined by an array of in situ techniques in order to assess the possibility that a geochemical signature characteristic of the Martian near-surface has been preserved within the meteorite. Tissint is a recent basaltic Martian fall that...