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Clinoenstatite from
Bencubbin meteorite, Bencubbin, Mount Marshall Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Clinoenstatite
Formula:MgSiO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Clinoenstatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bencubbin meteorite, Bencubbin, Mount Marshall Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:857188
Long-form Identifier:1:3:857188:5
GUID (UUID V4):09acadd1-9f92-46ee-bcce-0dba749d0d88
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
726 The Bencubbin meteorite: Further details, including microscopic character of host material and two...[Taken as read 14 March 1968] Summary. The Bencubbin meteorite and some of its enclaves have been studied...results show the host material to consist of clinoenstatite and a little olivine (both nearly pure magnesian...stressed the importance of this meteorite in its bearing on meteorite provenance and genesis, and the...University of Western Australia; Honorary Associate, Western Australian Museum. THE BENCUBBIN METEORITE 727
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
79’O5OI-M89SO?.(w1 0 of metal clasts in the Bencubbin meteoritic breccia HORTONE. NEWSOM*and MICHAELJ...in reoised form 21 December 1978) Abstract-Bencubbin is a breccia containing metal and silicate clasts...Science IX, pp. 1193-1195). Thus we believe that Bencubbin metal clasts may record chemical information imparted...metal from the nebula. Chromium concentrations in Bencubbin metal (0.05-0.30 wt%) greatly exceed concentrations...condensates from the solar nebula. The Cr-Ni trend in Bencubbin, however, is positively correlated with Ni, in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PriIltca in NorthernIrcfnnd The Weatherford Meteorite BRIAN U.S. National (Received MASON and J. NELEN...20560 1 February 1968) Ab,&&--The Weatherford meteorite is a highly shocked breccia of nickel-iron (5...half of the meteorite by weight. The composition of the non-magnetic portion of the meteorite is: SiO, 47...56, C 0.11, FeS 1.62, Fe 1.34, Ni 0.10. Trrrs meteorite, a single mass weighing about 2 kg, was plowed... P. Henderson, and the museum as a suspected meteorite. purchased the major portion, weighing 1431 g
Book
Formerly Reader in Geology at the University of Western Australia David & Charles: Newton Abbot ISBN 0 7153...Stones from the Sky 17 3 Astronomical 27 4 Meteorite Flight, Falls, and Impacts 37 5 The Morphology...Possible Primitive Life 213 Forms 5 CONTENTS 18 Meteorite Ages and Isotopic Studies 219 19 The Origin... Illustrations PLATES PAGE The fall of the Sikhot-Alin Meteorite (Academy of Sciences of the USSR) 45 The re-entry...Schwarz) 49 The World's largest single meteorite mass-the Hoba meteorite, South West Africa (American Museum
Report (issue)
Specimen No. 635 !> 32.7 g> Arizona State University Meteorite Collection, Terape, Arizona. Murray carbonaceoxis...was made possible by the existence of excellent meteorite collections at Arizona State University, Tempe...Carleton B. Moore, Director of Research, Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University, for the extended...INTRODUCTION ......................... 1 2. THE METEORITE CIASSZS ..................... k Descriptive...Impactites ................... Classification of the Meteorite Breccias ......... Volatile-rich Breccias ...
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., Australia (Received 9 June 1967; accepted in revised form...with polysynthetically twinned clinopyroxene (clinoenstatite-clinohypersthene) or with fresh glassy groundmasses...constituent pyroxenes are dominantly members of the clinoenstatite-clinoferrosilite series (cf. also VAN SCHMUS...the study progressed it became clear that this meteorite is an olivinehypersthene chondrite similar in...CHONURITE WAHL (1962) classified this well-known meteorite as a “polymict breccia”. Of the three British
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collected as a meteorite Veeder, 1979) and meteorite types (cf. Gaf- (and that our meteorite collections...assumptions on which the parent bodies of various meteorite classes. Perhaps the most precise attempt has...been summarized elegantly by the only type of meteorite which seems to have come from a differentiated...residuum of olivine and metal once the other meteorite classes have been made; this residuum, at least...taken too far, however. Consider the case o f Bencubbin, a stony iron which has been referred to as a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
water to a greater degree than the rest of the meteorite. The overall degree of hydration in CR chondrites...001 Total= 3265.0 lOraham&&(1985) 2-Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter(1989a) 3.Yanai and Kojima (1987) CKojima...CKojima and Yanai (1988) 5-Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter(1989b) 6-Bischoff a& (1991,1993a) Abbreviationsfor...in Antarctica. As is the case for some other meteorite groups, expeditions to Antarctica have brought...most PO and POP chondrules, pyroxene (mainly clinoenstatite) is concentrated on the margins of the cores
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TREMORGIO (CANTON TICINO) AS A POSSIBLE QUARTERNARY METEORITE IMPACT CRATER IN THE SWISS ALPS Kurt Bachtiger...the author had, some years ago, the idea of a meteorite impact crater in the Quarternary, i.e. 20-50,000...some interpretations will be attempted. 171 K Meteorite Type (ppm) johnstown (whole rock) Di 853...Total Ar 39_Ar40 age (G.Y.) 4.38 4.07 maximum Meteorite minimum Bjurbole 4.12 3.46 3.96 3.98 1.62 ... An agglutinate is born when a primary micro-meteorite impact (velocity - 20 km/sec) melts a little surface
Book
Professor of Chemistry and Geology Director, Nininger Meteorite Collection Arizona State University JOHN WILEY...Australian National University, Canberra, A, C,T, Australia G.K.MANNING, Technical Manager, Metallurgy Department...Chemistry and Geology, Director of: the Nininger Meteorite Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona...Geophysics, lian National University, Canberra, Australia AustraA.C.T. PETER SIGNER, Sscehool of Physies...announced the transfer of the outstanding Nininger Meteorite Collection to Arizona State University. Throughethe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SODERFJARDEN IMPACT STRUCTURE, WESTERN FINLAND. A. Abelsl, L. J. Pesonenz, A. Deutschl...transition is considerably shallower than the western slope. A similar but less distinct difference is... Nonuniform slumping might be the reason. The western rim has preserved a steep slope because no material...that penetrated the whole sedimentary pile in the western moat [4], although the absence of even Introduction:...regional variations. Splash-form tektites from Australia and southeast Asia contain on average 150 x lo6
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
weathering category A (Meteorite Newsletter 15), Y-980223 is listed as category A/B (Meteorite Newsletter 16)...cardboard slides. For standards we used the Allende meteorite (Jarosewich et al., 1987), the USGS international...1994), and the North Chile (Filomena) IIAB iron meteorite. Analyses were carried out following a protocol...difficult to use these data to determine whether this meteorite is more closely related to EH or EL chondrites...contain orthoenstatite to the exclusion of clinoenstatite; they have recrystallized textures and relict
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sharp, but irregular interfaces with the host meteorite and have characteristics which suggest that formed...from hot deserts. The 26AI concentration in a meteorite depends upon different parameter like the exposure...analyzed sample and the terrestrial age of the meteorite. Our data contributes to the understanding of...production rate characteristic for the corresponding meteorite class. We do not find extremely low 26AI concentrations...order to reconstruct the irradiation history of a meteorite in detail, it is essential to analyze other cosmogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Swineford Dr. U. B. Marvin Prof. J. N. Weber Western Washington State College Bellingham Washington...tektites, photographs, a: 864-855 Ablation rate iron meteorite “Thule”, 25: 98 Absolute abundance of the chromium...Bruderheim meteorite, 26: 6132 aubrite, Bishopville, 29: 1085-1099 cosmic-ray, Bruderheim meteorite, 26: 662...Also, Bogou, other meteorites, 29: 1327 Alabama meteorite, Felix, carbonaceous chondrite, 24: 70-82 pelecypod... cobalt in, 22: 28 Alabandite, in Abeo stony meteorite, X-ray diffraction pattern, 21: 133 in enstatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
' In spite of numerous historical records of meteorite falls, a century of scientific scepticism about...in meteorites. White inclusions of the Allende meteorite carry the melilite, spinel, diopside, and perovskite...with 27A1/24Mg in anorthite from the Allende meteorite (Lee et al., I977a , b); Hutcheon et al., I977;...carbonaceous chondrites; however, mixtures of several meteorite types are more plausible than just a single type...12; normalized to log H = 12; log atomic, b. CI meteorite; log atomic normalized to log Mg + log Si = 15
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l6-m.y.-old structure formed by the impact of a meteorite with the Earth. The long history of geological... Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia. Georgia tektites (georgiaites) occur in east-central...SEA (GSS), EGYPT: AN INTERESTING RESERVOIR OF METEORITE FINDS. A. A. Barakatl, V. de Michele,, G. R. Levi-DonatP...limited to a single occurrence in the Allende meteorite [5]. The C6, molecule is large enough to enclose...The Anjar volcano sedimentary sequence at the western periphery of Deccan located in Kutch, Gujarat (23O
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic variability in troilite within a same meteorite, our data are consistent with literature results:...from three new lithologies in the Tagish Lake meteorite [5] that have experienced less but varied degrees...()200–400&), with large scatter within a single meteorite [5]. To avoid potential contamination by D-rich...Chinese contemporary limestones [3] show that the meteorite flux was enhanced by two orders of magnitude following...recent study [5] on SEC grains found in the fossil-meteorite-bearing limestone from the Thorsberg quarry revealed
Book
metallogenic provinces; the copper-bearing area of the western United States, the tin-bearing region of Malaya...to wars. For centuries, the mineral deposits in western Europe have been an underlying cause of strife...in ores worked long ago in England (Cornwall), western China, Bohemia, and Spain that the ancients could...temperature accompanying the impact of a huge meteorite. Most of the natural stishovite from the highly...shows the Widmanstiitten structure of an iron meteorite which has resulted from the unmixing of an original
 
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