NASA NTRS · 19890040112
Shock effects in meteorites
Abstract
The impacts that can occur between objects on intersecting solar system orbits can generate shock-induced deformations and transformations, creating new mineral phases or melting old ones. These shock-metamorphic effects affect not only the petrography but the chemical and isotopic properties and the ages of primordial meteoritic materials. A fuller understanding of shock metamorphism and breccia formation in meteorites will be essential not only in the study of early accretion, differentiation, and regolith-evolution processes, but in the characterization of the primordial composition of the accreted material itself.
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Stoeffler, D., Bischoff, A., Buchwald, V., Rubin, A. E.. 1988-01-01. Shock effects in meteorites. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890040112
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