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Rubin et al. 1983
Rubin, A.E., Scott, E.R.D., Taylor, G.J., Keil, K., Allen, J.S.B., Mayeda, T.K., Clayton, R.N. and Bogard, D.D. (1983). Nature of the H chondrite parent body regolith: evidence from the dimmitt breccia. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: doi: 10.1029/JS088iS01p0A741. issn: 0148-0227.

The Dimmitt H chondrite regolith breccia consists of (in vol. %) 40% H4 and H5 chondrite clasts, 3% impact melt rock clasts, 0.5% shocked H chondrite clasts, 1.5% exotic clasts (including carbonaceous and LL5 chondrites), and 55% gas-rich matrix. The LL5 clast is the best documented example of an ordinary chondrite in a host of a different compositional group. The matrix contains unequilibrated material, which differs from typical H3 material in having little (0.2 vol.%) fine-grained opaque silicate matrix, and having 20% of the olivines with compositions in the range Fa21-24. About 10-15% of this unequilibrated material is probably derived from graphite-magnetite-rich chondrites and 2% from H3.0-3.5 chondrites. The absence of H3 clasts suggests that most of the unequilibrated material was derived from unconsolidated type 3 components. Many exotic clasts may have been derived from planetesimals that accreted to the H chondrite parent body prior to regolith development. One slowly cooled melt rock clast formed beneath a 500-m-thick melt breccia pile on the floor of a large impact crater and was later excavated by additional impacts, incorporated into the regolith and consolidated with other components to form the Dimmitt breccia.

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