| Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
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| Species: | 'Glass' (not an IMA approved species) |
| Comments: | Common & usually olivine normative (Dod et al.,1985); Feldspathic Glass (An70/Ab27) found in radiating pyroxene inclusion. (Olsen et al., 1990) |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Glass data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Monticello meteorite, Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 912296 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:912296:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 8f175ff5-b557-406c-bcd5-688efebe278b |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MONTICELLO: A GLASS-RICH HOWARDITE Edward J. Olsen Deptartment of Geology Field Museum of Natural History...Sipiera Meteorite Research Group William Rainey Harper College Palatine, IL 60067 Monticello is a new...similar to Malvern in that it contains abundant (15%) glass fragments. These fragments show a range of compositions...magnesian than those occurring in diogenites, Monticello and Kapoeta are exceptions to the simple two-component...mixtures of fragmented eucrites and diogenites. Monticello also contains clasts of what appear to be a cumulate |
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