Chondritic meteorites are unmelted and variably metamorphosed aggregates of the earliest
solids of the solar system. The variety of metamorphic textures in chondrites motivated the …

The textures of chondritic meteorites demonstrate that they are not the products of planetary
melting processes. This has long been interpreted as evidence that chondrite parent bodies …

Meteorites are samples of dozens of small planetary bodies that formed in the early Solar
System. They exhibit great petrologic diversity, ranging from primordial accretional …

Chondrules are the major high-temperature components of chondritic meteorites, which are
conventionally viewed as the samples from the very first generation of undifferentiated …

Modern meteorite classification schemes assume that no single planetary body could be
source of both unmelted (chondritic) and melted (achondritic) meteorites. This dichotomy is a …

Chondritic meteorites are thought to be representative of the material that formed the Earth.
However, the Earth is depleted in volatile elements in a manner unlike that observed in any …

Chondritic meteorites are the oldest and most primitive rocks in the solar system. They
formed as conglomerates of particles, many of which record individual, diverse nebular …

Although petrologic, chemical, and isotopic studies of ordinary chondrites and meteorites in
general have largely helped establish a chronology of the earliest events of planetesimal …

Chondrules are submillimeter spheres that constitute up to 80% of the volume of the most
primitive meteorites. That they result from the solidification of a melt in low-gravity in the early …

This chapter considers all meteorites which are of asteroidal origin and which do not contain
members displaying classic chondritic textures (ie chondrules in a fine-grained matrix). This …