%0 Journal Article
%A Rodríguez Santiago, Alberto
%A Llorca Piqué, Jordi
%A Sánchez Pastor, Nuria
%T Petrography and mineral chemistry of 49 equilibrated ordinary chondrites from the Atacama Desert, Chile
%D 2025
%@ 2659-9864
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121450
%X The Atacama Desert in northern Chile, South America, offers optimal conditions for meteorite accumulation due to its persistent hyper-arid climate, which has remained stable for approximately 25 million years [Dunai et al., 2005]. This unique environment has led to exceptionally high meteorite densities per square kilometer and the discovery of meteorite populations with terrestrial ages averaging 710,000 years [Hutzler et al., 2016, Drouard et al., 2019]. Since 2017, numerous international expeditions, alongside a few Chilean efforts, have actively searched for meteorites in the region. However, a key challenge faced by Chilean meteoritic researchers is the lack of access to microprobe laboratories, essential for the precise classification and analysis of meteorite samples.
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