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Dhofar 378 Martian meteorite, Dhofar (Al Janubiyah) Province, Oman
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Name:For Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911); Keeper of Mineralogy at the British Museum (1857-1880) and Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford University (1856-1895).


A type of naturally occurring glass having the composition of a plagioclase series feldspar, created by the vitrification of plagioclase by shock melting in meteorites and meteorite impacts.

Originally described from the Shergotty Martian meteorite, Gaya District, Bihar, India.

Classification of Maskelynite

IMA status:Not Approved
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Other Names for Maskelynite

Synonyms:
MascelyniteMaskeleynite
Other Languages:
German:Maskelynit
Mascelynit
Simplified Chinese:斜长玻璃
Spanish:Mascelynita
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Health Warning:No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

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    • Localities for Maskelynite

    The map shows a selection of localities that have latitude and longitude coordinates recorded. Click on the symbol to view information about a locality. The symbol next to localities in the list can be used to jump to that position on the map.
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    (TL) indicates type locality. ? indicates mineral may be doubtful at this locality. All other localities listed without reference should be considered as uncertain and unproven until references can be found.
    Algeria
     
    www.meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/mb89preview.pdf.
    Suporn Boonsuea & John Spraya (2012) Shock-Induced Phase Transformations in Melt Pockets within Martian Meteorite NWA 4468. Spectroscopy Letters: An International Journal for Rapid Communication 45:127-134.
    Shohei Kaneko, Eiji Ohtani, Masaaki Miyahara, Takeshi Sakai, Masahiro Kayama, Hirotsugu Nishido, Yasuo Oishi, Naohisa Hirao (2011) Dynamic event recorded in a lunar meteorite NWA 4734. Japan Geooscience Union Meeting Makuhari, Chiba Japan.
    • Sahara Desert
      • Lakhbi
    		www.meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/mb88.pdf.
    Antarctica
     
    • Eastern Antarctica
      • American Highland
        • Grove Mts
    		YT Lin, Lu Feng, Sen Hu (2011) High Pressure Mineral Assemblages in the Lherzolitic Shergottite Grove Mountains (GRV) 020090. Japan Geooscience Union Meeting Makuhari, Chiba Japan.
    Lu Feng, Masaaki Miyahara, Toshiro Nagase, Eiji Ohtani, Sen Hu, Ahmed El Goresy, Yangting Lin (2011) Shock Conditions and Formation Mechanism of Akimotoite-Pyroxene Glass Assemblages in the Grove Mountains (GRV) 052082. Japan Geooscience Union Meeting Makuhari, Chiba Japan.
    Meyer, C. (2001) Mars Meteorite Compendium: XXIV-1-2.
      • Queen Maud Land (Dronning Maud Land)
        • Roberts Massif
    		Takafumi Niihara, Hiroshi Kaiden, Keiji Misawa (2011) Petrology and Mineralogy of the RBT 04261 Shergottite. Japan Geooscience Union Meeting Makuhari, Chiba Japan.
    Brazil
     
    • Bahia
      • Rio do Pires
    China
     
    • Hubei Province
      • Suizhou Prefecture
        • Sui Co.
          • Xihe
    		[AmMin 85:1564]
    Germany
     
    • North Rhine-Westphalia
      • Münsterland
        • Velen
    		http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/earth/metcat/detail.dsml?Key=R160&index=
    India
     
    • Bihar
      • Gaya District
    		[Hey p438]
    Libya
     
    • Al Jabal al Gharbi District
    • Al Jufrah District
      • Dar al Gani
    		Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 67, No. 18, pp. 3519–3536, 2003
    Morocco
     
    • Guelmim-Es Semara Region
      • Tata Province
    		Irving, A.J. et. al, 2012 The Tissint DepeltedPermafic Olivine-Phyric Shergottite: Petrologic, Elemental, and Isotopic Characterization of a Recent Martian Fall in Morocco. 43rd LPSC #2510
    Meteoritical Bulletin 86: July, 2002
    www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/news51.html
    T. Bunch and J. Wittke, NAU
    New Zealand
     
    • North Island
      • Wairarapa
    		Mineralogical Magazine 1962 33 : 73-85.
    Nigeria
     
    • Katsina State
    		T.J. McCoy, M. Wadhwa, K. Keil, New lithologies in the Zagami meteorite: evidence for fractional crystallization of a single magma unit on Mars, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 63, Issues 7–8, April 1999, Pages 1249-1262,
    Oman
     
    • Dhofar (Al Janubiyah) Province
    Mahesh Anand, Lawrence A. Taylor, Mikhail A. Nazarov, J. Shu, H.K. Mao, and Russell J. Hemley (2004) Space weathering on airless planetary bodies: Clues from the lunar mineral hapkeite. PNAS 101:6847–6851
    D.D. Badjukov et al. , Lunar and Planetary Science, XXXVI (2005), 1684.pdf
    • Sayh al Uhaymir
    		Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 11492, 2003
    Poland
     
    • Mazowieckie
      • Pułtusk
    		www.geo.uw.edu.pl/MUZEUM/METEORITE/pultusk_a.htm.
    Russia
     
    • Siberia
    		Lapis 29(9):12 (2004)
    The Moon
    J. Frondel (2009), Lunar Mineralogy, Wiley Interscience
    USA
     
    • Illinois
      • Cook Co.
        • Park Forest
    		Meteoritical Bulletin 87:July, 2003
    • New Mexico
      • De Baca Co.
    		http://www.museum.hu-berlin.de/min/forsch/Schockklassifikation%20Stoeffler/Final%20Version/subdir/effectsa.htm
    • Oklahoma
      • Beaver Co.
    		Zhidong Xie et al. , Lunar and Planetary Science XXXI, 2065.pdf
      • Grant Co.
    		Meteoritical Bulletin, 81: July, 1997
      • Major Co.
    • Texas
      • Randall Co.
    		Zhidong Xie et al. , Lunar and Planetary Science XXXI, 2065.pdf
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