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Forsterite from
Landes meteorite, Landes, Grant County, West Virginia, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Landes meteorite, Landes, Grant County, West Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:668410
Long-form Identifier:1:3:668410:5
GUID (UUID V4):d0458139-77ef-4d8f-90b1-1319683dd241
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THE LANDES METEORITE T. E. Bunch Space Science Division Ames Research Center, NASA Moffett Field, California...Glenn I. Huss American Meteorite Laboratory Denver, Colorado 80201 The Landes silicate-bearing octahedrite...octahedrite is a new find from Grant County, West Virginia. Minerals and their compositions are very similar..."xenolithic" origin for the inclusions. INTRODUCTION The Landes octahedrite was found by Mr. V. A. Stump about...east of the 0 0 Landes Post Office, lat 38 54'N.; long 79 nw., Grant County, West Virginia. The iron was
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Mundrabilla, + 1.4 + 0.7 for Copiapo, and +2.6 k 0.6 for Landes. The (129Xe/132Xe),,,,,,, ratios are consistent...previous values for chondrites, with the exception of Landes which has an extraordinary trapped ratio of 3.5...achondrites, and a silicate inclusion from an iron meteorite. The most striking feature of this diagram is...Major silicate minerals in the IAB inclusions are forsterite, enstatite, diopside, and sodic plagioclase (BUNCH...significant amounts of troilite. The SEM mount of Landes contained appreciable amounts of an Fe-rich mineral-probably
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asteroidal parent bodies Alex Ruzicka ∗ Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Portland State University, 17 Cramer...IIE groups are the main silicate-bearing iron meteorite groups. They show relatively little evidence for...insights about relationships between different meteorite groups. They may have something to tell us about...properties of silicate-bearing irons by group.a Group Meteorite name Metal chemical trend Bulk silicate, low-Ca...silicate (Ma) Cooling rate IABb ALH 77255, Caddo County, Campo del Cielo, Canyon Diablo, EET 83333, EET
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PALLASITIC AFFINITIES IN SKARNS FROM PINE CANYON, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, U.S.A. S.O. Agrell, Department of Earth...silicates fall rapidly towards that of the bulk meteorite (Huss et al., 1981), possibly as a result of reduction...thermal histories and formation position within a meteorite parent body. These simulations may lead to a semi-quantitative...determined the equilibrium composition of the major meteorite minerals. The approximate degree of oxidation...region between 78-85 km is unrepresented in the meteorite collections. However, in view of Semarkona's many
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SENSITIVITY STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE ANALYSIS FOR METEORITE AND LUNAR STUDIES P.I. Abell, A.E. Fallick and...events which disturbed the U-Ph system. All these meteorite Ph isotope compositions, when corrected for the...phenomenon is not due to contamination of the meteorite samples by terrestrial lead. Further, the data...mineral fractions were isolated from the Murchison meteorite by a succession of chemical treatments and grain...have made a 117Rb·1l7Sr study in a number of meteorite classes,ranging from chondrites to iron meteorites
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of Chicago 5734 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago IL 60637 USA Dr. WILLIAM L. BROWN CRPG Centre National de la Recherche...analog of the feldspar framework (Fig. 2.2c) has east-west and northsouth linkages which allow cooperative...ordered. Low albites from the Amelia pegmatite, Virginia (Harlow and GE Brown 1980), the Tiburon and Cazadero...coherent cryptoperthite from Rabb Canyon pegmatite, Grant Co., New Mexico: sanidine T 1 0.1651, T2 0.1638;...identified from Table 3.1 50 Order-Disorder The Lake County labradorite with a, b, c and e diffractions is
 
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