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Petrogenesis of eucrite, howardite and diogenite meteorites

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THE mineralogical, textural and compositional characteristics of the eucrite meteorites suggest that they are the products of igneous processes. Howardites are polymict breccias containing a variety of fragments, the bulk of which are thought to have crystallised from eucrite and eucrite-related melts1. Diogenites are orthopyroxene-rich stones which may represent cumulates from eucrite-related melts2. I relate here experimentally determined phase equilibria to the igneous processes which produced the eucrites and their associates.

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STOLPER, E. Petrogenesis of eucrite, howardite and diogenite meteorites. Nature 258, 220–222 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258220a0

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