Contents
Collaborating Authors
Foreword
Preface
Part 1. Introduction
1.1. Overview and Classification of Meteorites - D. W. G. Sears and R. T. Dodd
Part 2. Source Regions
2.1. Asteroids And Meteorites - G. W Wetherill and C. R. Chapman
Part 3. Secondary Processing
3.1. Significance Of Secondary Processing - J. F. Kerridge
3.2. Igneous Activity In The Early Solar System - R. H. Hewins and H. E. Newsom
3.3. Thermal Metamorphism - H. Y. Mcsween. D. W G. Sears and R. T. Dodd
3.4. Aqueous Alteration - M. Zolensky and H. Y. Mcsween. Jr.
3.5. Meteorite Regolithic Breccias - T. E. Bunch and R. S. Rajan
3.6. Shock Effects in Meteorites - D. Stoffler. A. Bischoff. V. Buchwald And A. E. Rubin
Part 4. Irradiation Effects
4.1. Irradiation Records In Meteorites - M. W. Caffee. J. N. Goswami. C. M. Hohenberg. K. Marti and R. C. Reedy
Part 5. Solar-System Chronology
5.1. Principles Of Radiometric Dating - G. R. Tilton
5.2. Age Of The Solar System - G. R. Tilton
5.3. Dating Of Secondary Events - G. Turner
5.4. Compaction Ages - M. W. Caffee and J. D. Macdougall
Part 6. The Early Solar System
6.1. Chondrites And The Early Solar System: Introduction - J. F. Kerridge
6.3. A Review Of Solar Nebula Models - J. A. Wood and G. E. Morfill
6.4. Formation Processes and Time Scales for Meteorite Parent Bodies - S. J. Weidenschilling
Part 7. Chemistry Of Chondrites and The Early Solar System
7.1. The Cosmochemical Classification of the Elements - J. W. Larimer
7.2. Elemental Variations in Bulk Chondrites: A Brief Review - G. W. Kallemeyn
7.3. Refractory Lithophile Elements - J. W. Larimer and J. T. Wasson
7.5. Moderately Volatile Elements - H. Palme. J. W. Larimer and M. E. Lipschutz
7.6. Highly Labile Elements - M. E. Lipschutz and D. S. Woolum
7.7. Oxidation State in Chondrites - A. E. Rubin, B. Fegley and R. Brett
7.8. Planetary Compositions - S. R. Taylor
7.9. Trapped Noble Gases In Meteorites - T. D. Swindle
7.10. Planetary Atmospheres - D. M. Hunten, R. O. Pepin and T. C. Owen
Part 8. Magnetic Fields In The Early Solar System
8.1. Magnetic Studies Of Meteorites - N. Sugiura And D. W. Strang Way
Part 9. Chondrules
9.1. Properties of Chondrules - J. N. Grossman, A. E. Rubin, H. Nagahara and E. A. King
9.3. Formation of Chondrules - J. N. Grossman
9.4. Energetics of Chondrule Formation - E. H. Levy
Part 10. Primitive Material Surviving In Chondrites
10.1. Potential Significance of Pristine Material - J. F. Kerridge
10.2. Primitive Material Surviving in Chondrites: Matrix - E. R. D. Scott, D. J. Barber, C. M. Alexander, R. Hutchison and J. A. Peck
10.3. Primitive Material Surviving in Chondrites: Refractory Inclusions - G. J. Macpherson, D. A. Wark and J. T. Armstrong
10.4. Primitive Material Surviving in Chondrites: Mineral Grains - I. M. Steele
10.5. Organic Matter in Carbonaceous Chondrites, Planetary Satellites, Asteroids and Comets - J. R. Cronin, S. Pizzarello and D. P. Cruikshank
Part 11. Micrometeorites
11.1. Interplanetary Dust Particles - J. P. Bradley, S. A. Sandford and R. M. Walker
Part 12. Inhomogeneity of the Nebula
12.1. Heterogeneity in the Nebula: Evidence from Stable Isotopes - M. H. Thiemens
Part 13. Survival of Presolar Material in Meteorites
13.1. Circumstellar Material in Meteorites: Noble Gases, Carbon and Nitrogen - E. Anders
13.2. Interstellar Cloud Material in Meteorites - E. Zinner
13.3. Astrophysical Implications of Presolar Grains - J. A. Nuth, III
Part 14. Nucleosynthesis
14.1. Solar-System Abundances and Processes of Nucleosynthesis - D. S. Woolum
14.2. Stellar Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of the Solar Neighborhood - D. D. Clayton
14.3. Implications of Isotopic Anomalies for Nucleosynthesis - T. Lee
Part 15. Extinct Radionuclides and Nucleocosmochronology
15.1. Extinct Radionuclides - F. A. Podosek and T. D. Swindle
15.2. Nucleocosmochronology - F. A. Podosek and T. D. Swindle
15.3. Iodine-Xenon Dating - T. D. Swindle and F. A. Podosek
Part 16. Summary
16.1. Boundary Conditions for the Origin of The Solar System - J. F. Kerridge and E. Anders
16.2. Future Directions in Meteorite Research - E. Anders and J. F. Kerridge
Appendix 1: Mineral Names
Appendix 2: Impact Breccias
Appendix 3: Chondrite Bulk Elemental Analyses
Appendix 4: Solar-System Abundances of the Nuclides
Appendix 5: Iodine-Xenon Ages
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index