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Maghemite from
Meteor Crater, Meteor Crater area, Coconino County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Impact Crater
Classification
Species:Maghemite
Formula:(Fe3+0.670.33)Fe23+O4
Comments:Occurs as elongate, isotropic grains alternating with a goethite-like iron oxide as a minor component of tiny metallic spheroids probably formed from the meteorite impact.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Schreibersite
Troilite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Maghemite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Meteor Crater, Meteor Crater area, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:243333
Long-form Identifier:1:3:243333:2
GUID (UUID V4):4e75f3f9-8884-44c0-b669-f3ecce319c3c
Nearest other occurrences of Maghemite
0.0km (0.0 miles) ⓘCanyon Diablo meteorite, Meteor Crater area, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1992) © Meteoritical Society, 1992. Printed in USA Note Uranium accumulation during weathering of...meteoritic iron oxide consists mainly of goethite and maghemite and contains 209 to 630 ppb uranium compared to...known as "iron shale") in and close to Meteor Crater, Arizona, was described by several authors (e.g...spheroidal oxide masses (shale balls). The age of Meteor Crater was estimated to be as low as a few 100 or as...solutions (Langmuir, 1978), and on the age ofthe crater which is appropriate for U-series dating based
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uark.edu/meteor Petrographic studies of the impact melts from Meteor Crater, Arizona, USA FRIEDRICH...Texas 77058, USA 2Lockheed-Martin ESC, C23, 2400 NASA Road I, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 3Hemandez Engineering...16055 Space Center Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77062, USA *Correspondence author's e-mail address: Friedrich...the ballistically dispersed melts from Meteor Crater, Arizona, USA to determine the stratigraphic extent...major target formations, Moenkopi, Kaibab, and Coconino. Least-square mixing calculations revealed one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Devolatilization or melting of carbonates at Meteor Crater, AZ? 1* € F. HORZ , P. D. ARCHER, JR.2, P. B...Houston, Texas 77058, USA 2 Jacobs, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 3 ARES, NASA Johnson...Houston, Texas 77058, USA 4 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA * Corresponding author...monolithic clast of highly shocked Coconino sandstone of Meteor Crater, AZ to evaluate whether melting or...melts and their crystallization products at Meteor Crater. The carbon and oxygen isotope systematics for
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VOL 50, MAY_JUNE, 1965 SPHEROIDS FROM METEOR CRATER, ARIZONA' CvNrura W. Mnel, Jexnr LrrrrBn ANDE....composition of metaliic spheroids from Meteor Crater, Arizona, were studied in detail. The spheroidal...and surrounded by a go.thiteJike iron oxide and maghemite. Associated with the kamacite is an interstitiai...powder patterns of this pink mineral from the Meteor Crater spheroids are also iclentical to that of schreibersite...analysis sholvs: Ni% 2-24 5-6 21+ Kamacite Maghemite Goethite-like mineral FeTo 74-97 59-62 45-60
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. This checklist is an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from
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waves have played. A historic event, the Tunguska meteor, which involved shock compression of the atmosphere...the shock wave from the Tunguska meteor, which devastated a large area of forest when it exploded over...geologic processes. Most of the recent research in this area has been directed at materials modification and...third by weight of some Coconino sand­ stone samples from Meteor Crater, Arizona, according to Kieffer...and comminution can greatly increase the surface area where reactions take place. Shock-induced shear
Journal (issue)
Notes on the Sterling Mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York by Steven Chamberlain 82 PORTRAIT GALLERY...by one such local histor­ ical society. The Tri County Her­ itage Society at Morgantown, PA is a small...tory. For more than two centuries, the Morgan\own area was the scene of a flourish­ ing iron mining industry...arising fro111 the origin of a large crater near Winslow, Arizona, produced new theories about astral-geology...effect on the earth 's su,face. The sto,y of Meteor Crater and the evolution of ideas concerning its formation
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS...CALLAHAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON f -- The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona...arizona.edu © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Report (issue)
....................... 18 Barringer Meteorite Crater .................................................revealing structural details. fireball: Very bright meteor. fusion crust: The outer covering of a meteorite...consists of the pyroxene and plagioclase minerals. meteor: The light phenomenon produced by a solid body...olivine. path: The projection of the trajectory of a meteor or fireball against the sky as seen by an observer...along the trajectory of a meteor or fireball after the head of the meteor has passed. May be light, dust
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1945-5100.2010.01118.x The Whitecourt meteorite impact crater, Alberta, Canada Randolf S. KOFMAN, Christopher...of Sonny Stevens, without whom this remarkable crater would have continued in obscurity. Abstract–The...Abstract–The <1,100 yr old Whitecourt meteorite impact crater, located south of Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada, is...Unlike most of these sites, however, the Whitecourt crater contains nearly all of the features associated...meteorites, ejecta blanket, observable transient crater boundary, raised rim, and associated shock indicators
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University, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA c US Geological Survey, Shoemaker Astrogeology Center... 2255 North Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, USA E-mail: Published online: 27 Sep 2011. To cite this...University, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 3 US Geological Survey, Shoemaker Astrogeology Center...Center, 2255 North Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA. Downloaded by [Ryerson University] at 06:29 17...Dalgaranga craters. Liverpool crater and Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater are classic bowlshaped, Barringer-type
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Geosciences, Denison University, Granville, Ohio 43023, USA 3Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University...Missouri 63130, USA 4Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA 5Archaeology...Dakhleh Glass (DG)—which is distributed over an area of ~400 km2 of the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. This region...of DG, coupled with the absence of a confirmed crater, can best be explained by melting of surficial...2089 © The Meteoritical Society, 2008. Printed in USA. 2090 G. R. Osinski et al. ground at virtually
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA ‱ Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals-Arizona. I. Anthony, John W (John Williams), 1920-. QE375...HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of iron oxides including magnetite (FeFeaO,), maghemite (y-Fe&,), and hematite ( a-FeaO,). Some are partly...magnetite spherules. Large spherules of magnetite and maghemite were, however, discovered among the heavy minerals...from some drill samples taken beyond the mining area from depths of 4 to 8 m. An analysis of one of these...Jersey, in the heart of a highly industrialized area. It is undoubtedly an artifact. Somewhat similar...matrix. 3. Vaporization of large meteorites during crater formation. B. Meteoric. The infall of grains containing
Book
consuming, to search out the key papers in any basic area of research that one can hardly blame a busy man...consuming, to search out the key papers in any basic area of research that one can hardly blame a busy man...its satellites) to be modified by numerous large crater structures, then we should look for such scars...Reconsideration of, the Dalgaranga Meteorite and Crater, Western Austra l i a Mineralog. Mag. 35:476--4...82 ( 1965) 39 47 MADIGAN, C. T . : The Boxhole Crater and Huck itta Meteorite Royal Soc. South Australia
Book (edition)
OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~‱.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee...Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
Book (edition)
Q! creonl lia OE ~| /BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee...Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard...Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail: jh2713@unm.edu (Received...Abstract–The 50,000 year old, 1.8 km diameter Lonar crater is one of only two known terrestrial craters to...Mars. Samples from cores drilled into the Lonar crater floor show that there are basaltic impact breccias...terrestrial craters, we conclude that the Lonar crater represents a lower size limit for impact-induced...Fredriksson et al. 1973). This relatively small crater is one of only two known terrestrial craters to
Book (volume)
PUBLISH ED FOR THE CENTER FOR METEORITE STUDIES, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...Studies is proud to acknowledge the year he spent at Arizona State University as a Visiting Professor studying...due the staffs of the Bureau of Publications of Arizona State University for their detailed concern with...Director Center for Meteorite Studies Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona vii CONTENTS VOLUME 1 Preface...Comets , or Periodic Comets, and Their Associated Meteor Streams .. ... 10 5 Orbital Elements of Selected
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lithification took place even at the smallest, 11 m crater, but planar fractures (PFs) and undecorated planar...of castles. In addition, the glasses found in the area were taken as evidence that a 2000 Wabar impact...considerable confusion among the early explorers of the area. Before Philby arrived at Wabar in 1932, the Bedouins...covered by sand at the time that Philby explored the area, it was re-exposed in 1965 and collected on the...iron meteorite fragments recovered from the Wabar area since 1863 is estimated to be about 2.55 tons (Grady
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3500, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, MA, USA), equipped with a Cu micro‐ Minerals 2022, 12,...3500, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, MA, USA), equipped with a Cu microfocus source and an Amptek...(DXR, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) equipped with a 900 lines/mm diffracting grating...related to iron oxides and oxyhydroxide (hematite, maghemite, magnetite and goethite) present in the quartz...croparticles of iron oxides [hematite (α‐Fe 2 O 3 ), maghemite (γ‐Fe 2 O 3 ), magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 )] and goe‐
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A. ZEIGLER1 1 NASA-JSC, Houston, Texas 77058, USA Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham...35294–1170, USA 3 GeoControl Systems Inc.—Jacobs JETS contract—NASA JSC, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 4 Department...New Jersey 08854, USA 5 UTAS—Jacobs JETS Contract, NASA-JSC, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 6 HX5—Jacobs JETS...JETS Contract, NASA-JSC, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 7 Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of...Institution, Washington, District of Columbia 20560–0119, USA 8 Geochemical Research Center, The University of
Book (edition)
(Revised and Enlarged) The University of Arizona Press Tucson, Arizona ISBNs British Museum (Natural History)...History) 0 565 00 941 9 University of Arizona Press 0.8165 0912 3 Fourth edition 1985 British Museum (Natural...from The University of Arizona Press, 1615 East Speedway Boulevard, Tucson, Arizona, 85719, U.S.A. Library...or more others (for example, Saratov, Washington County, Salem). In the past distinct falls with the same...Hills area during which 300 specimens were recovered and the 1979-80 season in the Yamato area in which
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GA 30332, USA b Department of Geology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA * To whom...displays inclusions of corroded schreibersite in area >1 mm2. Two of the iron meteorites were obtained...The material surrounding the phosphide corrosion area is mostly silicate material (enstatite) and iron...correlate well with P (in the phosphide corrosion area), suggesting that the alteration process hinged...Fe-Ni-O-H compounds outside of the P rich corrosion area. Phosphorus did not mobilize and remained close
 
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