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Accretion Of Warm Chondrules In Weakly Metamorphosed Ordinary Chondrites And Their Subsequent Reprocessing Inferred From Electron Backscatter Diffraction (Ebsd), Petrographic, And Micro-Tomography Data, Alexander M. Ruzicka, Richard C. Hugo, Jon M. Friedrich, Michael Tyler Ream

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The textures, crystallography, deformation, and compositions of some chondrite constituents in ten lithologies of different cluster texture strength were studied in seven weakly metamorphosed (Type 3) and variably shocked LL and H ordinary chondrites using optical and electron microscopy and X-ray tomography techniques, to better understand chondrite accretion and subsequent processes. Data in particular bear on the accretion histories of chondrules and have implications for the formation of planetesimals and planetary bodies in the early solar system.