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SUBMITTER: Evatt GW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4757754 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evatt G W GW Coughlan M J MJ Joy K H KH Smedley A R D AR Connolly P J PJ Abrahams I D ID
Nature communications 20160216
Antarctica contains some of the most productive regions on Earth for collecting meteorites. These small areas of glacial ice are known as meteorite stranding zones, where upward-flowing ice combines with high ablation rates to concentrate large numbers of englacially transported meteorites onto their surface. However, meteorite collection data shows that iron and stony-iron meteorites are significantly under-represented from these regions as compared with all other sites on Earth. Here we explai ...[more]