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Investigating Soluble Organic Compounds In Aqueously Altered Carbonaceous Chondrites By Ultrahigh Resolution Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry, Patrick Kyle Schwartz
Investigating Soluble Organic Compounds In Aqueously Altered Carbonaceous Chondrites By Ultrahigh Resolution Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry, Patrick Kyle Schwartz
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Most meteorites are fragments from main-belt asteroids and contain extremely primitive materials that have preserved a compositional record of the early Solar System. After the formation of their parent bodies, carbonaceous chondrites experienced secondary modification from thermal metamorphism and/or aqueous alteration. Secondary processing likely influenced the synthesis and/or final composition of organic compounds in parent bodies; thus, these effects may be elucidated from the study of different meteorites. Although the role of aqueous alteration has been investigated for a few specific classes of compounds (such as amino acids), the effect of aqueous alteration on the full inventory of organic compounds …