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Wolf & Lipschultz 1995
Wolf, S.F. and Lipschultz, M.E. (1995). Chemical studies of H chondrites. 4. New data and comparison of Antarctic suites. Journal of Geophysical Research 100: doi: 10.1029/94JE03365. issn: 0148-0227.

We report data for the trace elements, Au, Co, Sb, Ga, Rb, Ag, Se, Cs, Te, Zn, Cd, Bi, Tl, and In (ordered by putative volatility during nebular condensation and accretion) determined by neutron activation analysis in 13 H5 chondrites from Victoria Land and 20 H4-6 chondrites from Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. These and earlier results provide Antarctic sample suites of 34 chondrites from Victoria Land and 25 from Queen Maud Land. Treatment of data for the most volatile 10 elements (Rb → In) in these suites by multivariate statistical techniques more robust, as well as more conservative, than conventional linear discriminant analysis and logistic regression demonstrates that compositions differ at marginally significant levels. This difference cannot be explained by trivial (terrestrial) causes and becomes more significant, despite the smaller size of the database, when comparisons are limited to data from a single analyst and when all upper limits are eliminated from consideration. The Victoria Land and Queen Maud Land suites have different mean terrestrial ages (~300 kyr and ~100 kyr, respectively) and age distributions, suggesting that a time-dependent variation of chondritic sources with different thermal histories is responsible. As a result, these two Antarctic suites are, on average, chemically distinguishable from each other. Since H chondrites serve as a paradigm for other meteorite classes, these results indicate that the near-Earth populations of planetary materials varied with time on the 105-year timescale. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Planetology, Solid Surface Planets, Composition, Geochemistry, Chemical evolution, Geochemistry, Geochronology
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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