Almost 7,000 chemical analyses of element abundances in stony meteorites and the silicate portion of stony-iron and iron meteorites are contained in this database. All major, minor and trace elements, except for trans-uranium elements, noble gases and oxygen are considered (77 chemical elements intotal). The data are mainly on whole rock (bulk) material. Some are also on clasts, xenoliths and mineral separates.
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Information window with elemental abundance data for a selected stony or stony-iron meteorite
The background colors of the element field give the following rough indications:
green: major or minor elements (>99 weight % of all elements in the solar abundance table)
blue: predominantly siderophile trace elements (generally "iron-metal loving" noble elements)
yellow: predominantly lithophile trace elements (reactive "oxygen-loving" elements that are enriched in the silicate phase of meteorites)
pink: Rare Earth Elements (REEs), also lithophile elements
orange: volatile and labile elements, being generally depleted in thermally metamorphosed meteorites
