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Meteoritical Bulletin: Oxygen Isotope Plots

Oxygen isotope composition of ordinary and R chondrites. Data for ordinary chondrites from Clayton et al. (1991). Data for R chondrites from: Weisberg et al. (1991), Schultze et al. (1994), Jackel et al. (1996),Kallemeyn et al. (1996), Weber et al. (1997), Bischoff et al. (1998), McBride et al. (2003). Entry for NWA 1668, Met. Bull. 88. Δ17O calculated as: Δ17O = δ17O – 0.52δ18O

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• McBride K., McCoy T. and Welzenbach L. (2003) Petrographic description of LAP 02238. Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 27, No. 1, 18 (link)
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