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Kamacite from Sahara Desert, North Africa

Algeria
 
  • Bordj Badji Mokhtar Province
    • Bordj Badji Mokhtar District
      • Bordj Badji Mokhtar
Leroux, H., Doukhan, J. C. & Bischoff, A. (1997) Mineralogy and crystallization history of the ILAFEGH 009 EL-chondritic impact-melt rock: An ATEM investigation. Meteoritics 32 (3): 365-372. (May 1997)
Wlotzka, F. (ed.) (1991). Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 71. Meteoritics 26 (3): 255-262. (June 1991).
Oba, T., Nagase, K. & Hayashi, A. (1998) Mineralogy and petrology of chondrule in Ouallen (Tanezrouft) meteorite: Bulletin Joetsu Univ. Educ. 17(2): 891-899. (March1998).
Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025
  • In Salah Province
    • In Salah District
      • Foggaret Ezzaouia
Newton, J., Bischoff, A., Arden, J. W., Franchi, I. A., Geiger, T., Greshake, A. & Pillinger, C. T. (1995). Acfer 094, a uniquely primitive carbonaceous chondrite from the Sahara. Meteoritics 30 (1), 47-56. (Jan 1995).
  • Timimoun Province
    • Aougrout District
Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites Vol. 2 - Their History, Distribution, Composition and Structure. University of California Press.
  • Tindouf Province
www.lpi.usra.edu (2020) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=66064
Egypt
 
  • Matrouh Governorate
Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41, Nr 8, Supplement, A201–A216 (2006)
  • New Valley Governorate
    • East Uweinat Desert
      • Gebel Kamil Crater (Kamil Crater)
tin.er.usgs.gov (2010) http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=52031
Methot, R. L. et al., (1975) Mineralogy, petrology and chemistry of the Isna (C3) meteorite. Meteoritics 10 (2): 121-131. (Jun 1975)
Libya
 
  • Jabal al Gharbi District
    • Hamadah al Hamra
Grady, M. M., Pratesi, G. & Moggi Cecchi, V. (2015) Atlas of Meteorites. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 373 pages.
Connolly Jr, HC & 11 others (2006). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 90, 2006 September. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41(9): 1383-1418. (Sept 2006).
  • Jufra District
    • Dar al Gani
Ikeda, Y., Kita, N. T., Morishita, Y. & Weisberg, M. K. (2003) Primitive clasts in the Dar al Gani 319 polymict ureilite: Precursors of the ureilites. Antarctic Meteorite Research 16: 105-127. (Mar 2003).
Ikeda, Y., Prinz, M. & Nehru, C. E. (2000) Lithic and mineral clasts in the Dar Al Gani (DAG) 319 polymict ureilite: Antarctic Meteorite Research. Twenty-fourth Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites, NIPR Symposium No. 13., Editor in Chief, Takeo Hirasawa. National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo. pp.177-221. (Mar 2000).
Folco, L. et al. (2004) Extensive impact melting on the H-chondrite parent asteroid during the cataclysmic bombardment of the early solar system: Evidence from the achondritic meteorite Dar al Gani 896. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (10): 2379-2397. (May 2004).
Zhang, A.-C. & Yurimoto, H. (2013). Petrography and mineralogy of the ungrouped type 3 carbonaceous chondrite Dar al Gani 978. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48 (9): 1651–1677. (Sept 2013)
Mali
 
  • Kidal Region
    • Tessalit Cercle
Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025
  • Taoudénit Region
    • Taoudénit Cercle
www.lpi.usra.edu (n.d.) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Sebkha+el+Melah+001&sfor=names&ants=&nwas=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&strewn=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=78420
Mauritania
 
  • Adrar Region
    • Chinguetti
Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025
Lapaz, L. & Lapaz, J. (1954)The Adrar (=Chinguetti), Mauritania, French West Africa, Meteorite (CN=0127,202): Meteoritics 1(2):187-196.
  • Assaba Region
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
  • Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region
    • Nouadhibou
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
  • Tagant Region
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
  • Tiris Zemmour Region
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
Morocco
 
  • Drâa-Tafilalet Region
    • Errachidia Province
      • Er-Rissani Cercle
        • Sidi Ali Caïdat
www.lpi.usra.edu (2020) http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=44983
Connolly, Jr., H. C. et al., (2007) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 92, 2007 September: MAPS 42 (9), 1647-1694. (Sept 2007)
Connolly Jr., H. C. et al. (2007) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 92, 2007 September. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 4 (9): 1647-1694. (Sept 2007)
Kuehner, S. M. & Irving, A. J. (2007) Primary Ferric Iron-Bearing Rhönite in Plutonic Igneous Angrite NWA 4590: Implications for Redox Conditions on the Angrite Parent Body. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P41A-0219. (Dec 2007)
    • Zagora Province
      • Zagora Cercle
        • Tagounite Caïdat
Riches et al., (2012). Mineralogical and trace-element constraints on the petrogenesis of Angrites. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XLII, pdf#2229
  • Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region
    • Boujdour Province
      • Jraifia Cercle
Wittmann, A. et al. (2015): LPS XLVI, Abstract #1141.
Wittmann, A. et al. (2014): M & PS, 49, A437
    • Es Semara Province
      • Es Semara Cercle
        • Jdiriya
Rubin, A. E., Zolensky, M. E. & Bodnar, R. J. (2002) The halite-bearing Zag and Monahans (1998) meteorite breccias: Shock metamorphism, thermal metamorphism and aqueous alteration on the H-chondrite parent body. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 37( 1) pp. 125-141 (Jan 2002)
    • Tarfaya Province
      • Daoura-El Hagounia Cercle
        • El Hagounia Caïdat
Harold C. Connally, Jr. & 7 others (2007). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 92, 2007 September. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42, 1647-1694.
  • Souss-Massa Region
    • Tata Province
      • Akka Cercle
        • Ait Ouabelli Caïdat
Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106, in preparation (2017)
Niger
 
  • Agadez
    • Arlit
Bourot-Denise, M., Zanda, B. & M. Javoy, M. (2012) Tafassasset: An Equilibrated CR Chondrite. 33rd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 11-15, 2002, Houston, Texas, abstract no.1611. (Mar 2012).
Russell, S.S., Zipfel, J., Grossman, J.N. & Grady, M.M. (2002). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 86, 2002 July. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37 (7,Suppl.): pp. A157-A184. (July 2002).
www.lpi.usra.edu (2021) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Tass%C3%A9det+004&sfor=names&ants=&nwas=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&strewn=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=70035
North Africa
 
  • Sahara Desert
Owocki, K. & Muszyńcki, A. (2012) Shock veins in the Sahara 02500 ordinary chondrite. Geologos 18 (2): 111-118.
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
Lehner, S. W., McDonough, W. F., & Németh, P. (2014). EH3 matrix mineralogy with major and trace element composition compared to chondrules. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 49(12), 2219-2240.
Péter Németh, Stephen W. Lehner, Michail I. Petaev, Peter R. Buseck (2013): Kumdykolite, a high-temperature feldspar from an enstatite chondrite. American Mineralogist, 98, 1070-1073.
Lehner, S. W., Nemeth, P., Petaev, M. I., & Buseck, P. R. (2013). Origin of Fine-Grained Albite in an EH3 Sulfidized Chondrule. LPI Contributions, 1719, 2500.
Gannoun, A., Boyet, M., El Goresy, A., & Devouard, B. (2011). REE and actinide microdistribution in Sahara 97072 and ALHA77295 EH3 chondrites: A combined cosmochemical and petrologic investigation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(11), 3269-3289
Northwest Africa Meteorites
 
Riches, A.J.V. et. al. (2012) Rhenium–osmium isotope and highly-siderophile-element abundance systematics of angrite meteorites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 353-354: 208-218, Angrite Appendix.
Weisberg et al., (2008) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 94: Meteoritics and Planetary Science 43 (9): 1551-1588. (Sept 2008)
Sudan
 
  • River Nile
Michael K. Weisberg, Caroline Smith, Gretchen Benedix, Cristopher K. D. Herd, Kevin Righter, Henning Hack, Akira Yamaguchi, Hasnaa Chennaoui & Jeffrey N. Grossman (2009). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 96, September 2009, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, (#9), 1355-1397.
Tunisia
 
  • Tataouine
    • Tataouine (Foum Tatahouine)
Ramdohr, Paul (1972) The Opaque Minerals in Stony Meteorites. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783112651025
Western Sahara
 
  • al-Saqiyah al-Hamra'a (Saguia el Hamra)
Patzer, A., Hill, D. H., & Boynton, W. V. (2001). Itqiy: A metal‐rich enstatite meteorite with achondritic texture. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36(11), 1495-1505.
 
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