Publications on Chondrule Properties and Cathodoluminescence Images

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

83.       Sears, D.W.G., Lu Jie, Benoit, P.H., DeHart, J.M. and Lofgren, G.E. (1992)  A compositional classification scheme for meteoritic chondrules.  Nature 357, 207-210.

94.       Sears D.W.G., Huang S. and Benoit P.H. (1995)  Chondrule formation, metamorphism, brecciation, an important new primary chondrule group, and the classification of chondrules.  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 131, 27-39.

102.     Huang Shaoxiong, Lu Jie, Prinz M., Weisberg M.K., Benoit P.H., Sears D.W.G. (1996)  Chondrules:  Their diversity and the role of open-system processes during their formation.  Icarus 122, 316-346.

103.     Sears D.W.G., Huang S. and Benoit P.H. (1996)  Open-system behavior during chondrule formation.  In "Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk", (eds. Hewins, R., Jones R. H. and Scott E. R. D.), pp. 221-231.  Cambridge University P.

108.     Huang Shaoxiong, Yanghong Zhang and Sears D.W.G. (1997)  Formation and metamorphism of group A5 chondrules in ordinary chondrites.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 4689-4704.

118.     Sears D. W. G., Lyon I., Saxton J. and Turner G. (1998)   The oxygen isotope properties of olivines in chondrules in ordinary chondrites.  Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33, 1029-1032.

119.     Symes S. J. K., Sears D. W. G., Taunton A., Akridge D. G., Yanghong Zhang and Benoit P. H. (1998)  The crystalline lunar spherules:  Their formation and implications for the origin of meteoritic chondrules.  Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33, 13-29.

133.     Schneider, D. M.,  Symes, S. J. K., Benoit, P. H., Sears, D. W. G. (2002)  Properties of chondrules in EL3 chondrites, comparison with EH3 chondrites, and the implications for the formation of enstatite chondrites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37 1401-1416.

 

Abstracts and Extended Abstracts

A100.  Matsumani S., Ninagawa K., Yamamoto I., Kohata M., Wada T., Yamashita Y., Lu J., Sears D.W.G. and Nishimura H.  (1992)  Thermoluminescence and compositional zoning in the mesostasis of a Semarkona group A chondrule asnd new insights into the chondrule forming process.  Meteoritics 27, 256-257.

A102.  Huang S., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1993)  The group A3 chondrules of Krymka: further evidence for major evaporative loss during the formation of chondrules.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIV, 681-682. 

A104.  Sears D.W.G., Huang S. and Benoit P.H. (1993)  The compositional classification of chondrules and the petrologic type of an especially primitive H chondrite.  Meteoritics 28, 434-435.

A108.  Huang S., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1993a)  The group A3 chondrules of Krymka: further evidence for major evaporative loss during the formation of chondrules.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIV, 681-682. 

A122.  Huang S., Benoit P.H. and Sears D.W.G. (1994a)  Group A5 chondrules in ordinary chondrites:  Their formation and metamorphism.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXV, 573-574. 

A123.  Sears D.W.G. and Lipschutz M.E. (1994)  Evaporation and recondensation during chondrule formation.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXV, 1229-1230. 

A137.  Sears D. W. G., Huang S. and Benoit P. H. (1995)  The formation of chondrules.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVI, 1263-1264.

A138.  Sears D.W.G., Huang S. and Benoit P.H. (1995)  Chondrules from the Earth and Moon:  A review.  Meteoritics 30, 577.

A144.  Sears D. W. G., Huang S., Akridge G. and Benoit P. H. (1996)  Glassy spherules in suevite from the Ries Crater, Germany, with implications for the formation of meteoritic chondrules.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVII, 1165-1166.

A145.  Sears D. W. G., Symes S,. Taunton A., Huang S., Akridge G. and Benoit P. H. (1996)  The lunar devitrified glass spherules:  Implications for the origin of meteoritic chondrules.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVII, 1167-1168.

A151.  Schneider D. M., Taunton A., Benoit P. H. and Sears D. W. G. (1997)  A comparison of the compositions of chondrules in the EH and EL chondrites and discussion of some implications.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVIII, 1257-1258.

A157.  Akridge G. and Sears D. W. G. (1998)  Chondrule and metal size-sorting in asteroidal regoliths:  Experimental results with implications for chondritic meteorites.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIX, CD-ROM # 1198.

A123   Sears D. W. G. (1998)  The origins of chondrules and chondrites.  Antarctic Meteorites XXIII (Papers presented at the twenty-third symposium of antarctic meteorites), 134-138.

A170.  Benoit, P. H., Symes S. W. S. and Sears D. W. G. (1999).  Chondrule Size Distributions:  What does it Mean? Lunar Planet. Sci. XXX, CD-ROM #1053.

A173.  Sears D. W. G., Lyon I. C., Saxton J. M., Symes S., and Turner G. (1999)  Oxygen isotope heterogeneity in the mesostasis of a Semarkona group A1 chondrules. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXX, CD-ROM #1406.

A177.  Lyon I. C., Saxton J. M., Sears D. W. G., Symes S. and Turner G. (1999)  Possible mass-dependent oxygen-isotopic fractionation in the mesostasis of a Semarkona group A1 chondrule.  Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 34, A76-A77.

A18.    Sears, D.W.G., Sparks, M.H. and Rubin, A.E. (1983)  Chemical and physical studies of type 3 ordinary chondrites - III. Chondrules from the Dhajala H3.8 chondrite. Meteoritics, 18, 394.

A56.    DeHart, J.M., Sears, D.W.G. and Lofgren G. E. (1988a)  Sodium enriched luminescent chondrule mesostasis rims in the unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Meteoritics, 23, 265.

A63.    Sears, D.W.G., Lu, J., Guimon, R.K., Morse, A.D., Hutchison, R., Alexander, C.O., Wright, I.P. and Pillinger, C.T. (1988)  The thermoluminescence properties of chondrules from three low petrologic type ordinary chondrites.  Meteoritics, 23, 30.

A64.    Sears, D.W.G., Morse, A.D., Hutchison, R., Guimon, R.K., Alexander, C.O., Wright, I.P. and Pillinger, C. (1988)  Alteration history of chondrules in the Semarkona ordinary chondrite.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XIX, 1051-1052.

A76.    Lu Jie, Sears D.W.G., Keck B.D., Prinz M., Grossman J.N. and Clayton R.N.  (1990)  Semarkona type I chondrules compared with similar chondrules in other classes.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXI, 720-721.

A89.    Sears D.W.G., Lu Jie and Benoit P.H. (1991)  Volatile loss during chondrule formation.  Meteoritics, 26, 394.

A99.    Lu J., Sears D.W.G., Benoit P.H., Prinz M. and Weisberg M.K. (1992)  The four primitive chondrule groups and the formation of chondrules.  Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIII, 813-814.

 

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