Murchison Downs meteorite, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 26° 40' South , 119° 0' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -26.66667,119.00000 |
GeoHash: | G#: qek87cmpk |
Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
Meteorite Class: | Ungrouped iron meteorite |
Meteoritical Society Class: | Iron, ungrouped |
Metbull: | View entry in Meteoritical Bulletin Database |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Fell 1925, 33g
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Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 701337 | felsic intrusives 74292 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Undifferentiated felsic intrusive rocks, including monzogranite, granodiorite, granite, tonalite, quartz monzonite, syenogranite, diorite, monzodiorite, pegmatite. Locally metamorphosed, foliated, gneissic. Local abundant mafic and ultramafic inclusions Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3187503 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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