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Serpentine Subgroup from
Paris meteorite, Paris, Ile-de-France, France


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:'Serpentine Subgroup' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:D3[Si2O5](OH)4
Comments:Abundant/dominant (and variable) in both matrix and chondrules
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Serpentine Subgroup data
Locality Data:Click here to view Paris meteorite, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:926051
Long-form Identifier:1:3:926051:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Marrocchi, Y., Gounelle, M., Blanchard, I., Caste, F. & Kearsley, A.T. (2014) The Paris CM chondrite: secondary minerals and asteroidal processing. Meteoritics & Planetary Science: 49 (7): 12321249. (July 2014).
Hewins, Roger H. & 16 others (2014) The Paris meteorite, the least altered CM chondrite so far. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 124: 190-222. (1 January 2014)
Rubin, A. E. (2015) An American on Paris: Extent of aqueous alteration of a CM chondrite and the petrography of its refractory and amoeboid olivine inclusions. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50(9): 1595-1612. (Sept 2015).
 
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