For fourteen years the Cosmochemistry Group was
part of the preliminary examination team for Antarctic meteorites. Because of the climate conditions. history
and ice movements in Antarctica, large numbers of meteorites are found on the
blue ice adjacent to mountains.
Petrologists could describe their major properties and identify new
types of meteorite, but a means was needed to identify meteorites that were
compositionally normal but had unusual histories. The thermoluminescence techniques developed over many years by
the Cosmochemistry Group were well-suited to this.
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The 1995-96
Antarctic meteorite field team searching blue ice fields adjacent to the beautiful
Ottway Massif. (From the ANSMET web site).
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