Plagioclase from
Simondium meteorite, Simondium, Drakenstein Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa

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Locality type:

Meteorite Fall Location

Classification

Species:

'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)

Formula:

(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

Click here to view Simondium meteorite, Simondium, Drakenstein Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa

Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

929826

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:929826:2

GUID (UUID V4):

1430e1ce-487d-4169-b152-817399297555

References

Prior, G. T. (1910) On a Meteoritic stone from Simondium: Mineralogical Magazine 15 (71): 312-315.

Prior, G. T. (1918) On the mesosiderite-grahamite group of meteorites: With analyses of Vaca Muerte, Hainholz, Simondium and Powder Creek. Mineralogical Magazine 18 (85): 151-172. (Aug 1918)

Floran, R. J., Caulfield, J. B. D., Harlow, G. E. & Prinz, M. (1978) Impact-Melt Origin for the Simondium, Hainholz and Pinnaroo Mesosiderites (Abstract.): Lunar and Planetary Science, IX: 326-328. (March 1978)

Mittlefehldt, D. W., McCoy, T. J., Goodrich, C. A. & Kracher, A. (1998). Non-chondritic meteorites from asteroidal bodies. In: Planetary Materials (Papike, J. J. [Ed.]): Chapter 4, 195 pages. Mineralogical Society of America: Washington, DC, USA.

Reference Search (possible matching items)

	*Shand, S. James (1943) Eruptive Rocks* (2nd ed.) Thomas Murby & Co. , London.**	Book (edition)
	published in 1927, when the author was resident in South Africa and library facilities were of the poorest....system diopside-albite-anorthite The system plagioclase-pyroxene Crystallization on a cotectic surface...system albitc-anorthite The system diopside-plagioclase Quaternary equilibrium-diagram 12. Melilite crystals...Scotland ... 19. Skeleton crystals of apatite, South Africa ... 20. Melanite in ijolite, Transvaal 21. Olivine-anorthite...batholith, Minnesota ... 35. Map of Ascension Island, South Atlantic ... ... 36. Section across the Bushveld
	*Shand, S. James (1950) Eruptive Rocks* (4th ed.) Thomas Murby & Co. , London.**	Book (edition)
	sodlc plagiodase (white), in granite, Cape Town, South Africa lU jyb. NephdiDe crystals in phouolite...entire backgrwnd) is full of corcoded! relics of plagioclase (showing polysynthedc Ctrin. ing), pyroxene... Scotland 16. Skeleton crystals of apatite, South* Africa 17. Melanite in ijolite, Transvaal 18. Olirine-anortbite...Island, South Atlantic 40. Section across the Buahvekl norite, Transvaal 41. Tabankulu Mountain. South Africa...Hise of the granite dykes of the Black Hills in South Dakota. “ Tha cor* rock iz • gr«at b*tholith of

Plagioclase from Simondium meteorite, Simondium, Drakenstein Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa

Plagioclase from
Simondium meteorite, Simondium, Drakenstein Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa