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hFormation of chromite/magnetite - diopside/augite symplectites in terrestrial and extraterrestrial olivine

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Natalia Khisina,
Laboatory of meteoritics, V.I.Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science

SEM microphotograph (above) and TEM image (below) of chromite-diopside symplectite in (010) section of olivine from lunar basalt. black: chromite, white: diopside
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