Cometary isotopic measurements

D Bockelée-Morvan, U Calmonte, S Charnley… - Space science …, 2015 - Springer
Isotopic ratios in comets provide keys for the understanding of the origin of cometary
material, and the physical and chemical conditions in the early Solar Nebula. We review …

[HTML][HTML] Impact structures in Africa: A review

WU Reimold, C Koeberl - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
More than 50 years of space and planetary exploration and concomitant studies of terrestrial
impact structures have demonstrated that impact cratering has been a fundamental process …

Surface vitrification caused by natural fires in Late Pleistocene wetlands of the Atacama Desert

P Roperch, J Gattacceca, M Valenzuela… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
We describe extended occurrences of unusual silicate glass surface layers from the
Atacama Desert (Chile). These glasses, found near the town of Pica at four localities …

Petrography of the carbonaceous, diamond-bearing stone “Hypatia” from southwest Egypt: A contribution to the debate on its origin

GA Belyanin, JD Kramers, MAG Andreoli… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The stone named “Hypatia” found in the Libyan Desert Glass area of southwest Egypt is
carbon-dominated and rich in microdiamonds. Previous noble gas and nitrogen isotope …

[PDF][PDF] CARBONADO DIAMOND: A REVIEW OF PROPERTIES AND ORIGIN.

SE Haggerty - Gems & Gemology, 2017 - academia.edu
Carbonado diamond is found only in Brazil and the Central African Republic. These unusual
diamond aggregates are strongly bonded and porous, with melt-like glassy patinas unlike …

Origin of tanzanite and associated gemstone mineralization at Merelani, Tanzania

C Harris, W Hlongwane, N Gule… - … African Journal of …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Tanzanite is the blue vanadium-bearing variety of zoisite. The only known source of gem-
quality tanzanite, to date, is the Merelani area of northeastern Tanzania, a structurally …

Fluvial transport model from spatial distribution analysis of Libyan Desert Glass mass on the Great Sand Sea (Southwest Egypt): Clues to primary glass distribution

N Jimenez-Martinez, M Ramirez, R Diaz-Hernandez… - Geosciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is a natural silica-rich melted rock found as pieces scattered over
the sand and bedrock of the Western Desert of Egypt, northeast of the Gilf Kebir. In this work …

Fluid inclusion and stable isotope (O, H, C) constraints on the genesis of the Pedra Branca gold deposit, Troia Massif, Borborema Province, NE Brazil: An example of …

FG da Costa, EL Klein, C Harris, S Roopnarain - Ore Geology Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract At the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Troia Massif, NE Brazil, two major
Paleoproterozoic greenstone belts are documented (Algodões and Serra das Pipocas) …

[HTML][HTML] The chemistry of the extraterrestrial carbonaceous stone “Hypatia”: A perspective on dust heterogeneity in interstellar space

JD Kramers, GA Belyanin, WJ Przybyłowicz, H Winkler… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
An extraterrestrial origin for a carbonaceous, diamond-bearing and silicate-free stone
named “Hypatia”, found in 1996 in southwest Egypt, was determined in 2013 and confirmed …

A comprehensive study of noble gases and nitrogen in “Hypatia”, a diamond-rich pebble from SW Egypt

G Avice, MMM Meier, B Marty, R Wieler… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
This is a follow-up study of a work by Kramers et al.(2013) on a very unusual diamond-rich
rock fragment found in the area of south west Egypt in the south-western side of the Libyan …