Meteor Crater (Barringer Crater), Winslow, Coconino Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 35°1'41"N
Longitude: 111°1'21"W
‡Ref.: ‡Ref.: Rogers, A.F. (1930), A unique occurrence of lechatelierite or silica glass, American Journal of Science: 19: 195-202.
Chao, E.C.T., et al (1960), First natural occurrence of coesite, Science: 132: 220-222.
Chao, E.C.T., et al (1962), Stishovite, a very high pressure new mineral from Meteor Crater, Arizona, Journal of Geophysical Reseach: 67: 419-421.
Fahey, J.J. (1964), Recovery of coesite and stishovite from Coconino Sandstone of Meteor Crater, Arizona, American Mineralogist: 49: 1643-1647.
Bohn, E. & W. Stöber (1966), Coesit und Stishovit als isolierte natürliche Mineralien, Neues Jahrb. Min.: 89-96.
Gigl, P.D. & F. Dachille (1968), Effect of pressure and temperature on the reversal transitions of stishovite, Meteorites: 4: 123-136.
Mead, C., et al (1965), Metallic spheroids from Meteor Crater, Arizona, American Mineralogist: 50: 667-681.
Shoemaker, E.M., and Kieffer, S.W. (1974) Guide to the Astronaut Trail at Meteor Crater, in Shoemaker, E.M., and Kieffer, S.W., eds., Guidebook to the geology of Meteor Crater, Arizona, prepared... for the 37th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, August 7, 1974: Tempe, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Publication no. 17, p. 34-62 [reprinted 1988].
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 180, 274, 383, 403.
Located West of Winslow. Species listed under this file are the results of the meteorite impact. Additional species are listed under the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which impacted the earth here. Those species occur in the meteorite itself and are distributed within, and beyond the crater itself.
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