| Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
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| Species: | 'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species) |
| Formula: | (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 |
| Comments: | Plagioclase in mesostasis (~Ab80Or5An15) |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Plagioclase data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Monroe meteorite, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1018595 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1018595:7 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 370c8287-a19b-4909-b871-76bda3cf9f88 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase |
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| 32.7km (20.3 miles) | ⓘPink Star Quarry, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA |
| 39.4km (24.5 miles) | ⓘBalfour Quarry, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA |
| 42.5km (26.4 miles) | ⓘDunns Mountain, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA |
| 51.6km (32.1 miles) | ⓘLake Norman Quarry, Stanley, Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA |
| 69.6km (43.2 miles) | ⓘKindley Prospect, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA |
| 75.0km (46.6 miles) | ⓘClaude Beam Prospect, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA |
| 75.3km (46.8 miles) | ⓘHuskins Mine, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA |
| 75.8km (47.1 miles) | ⓘMcAllister prospect (Conroy; Davis Hill Mine; Davis Mountain; Dorr's Hill), Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA |
| 76.2km (47.3 miles) | ⓘE. R. Self Mine (Old Neale Mine), Gaston County, North Carolina, USA |
| 77.1km (47.9 miles) | ⓘOld Carroll Mine (Bun Patterson Mine), Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | appears to be simply a powdered phase of the meteorite rather than foreign matter, thus unlike a normal...had the opportunity to examine several large meteorite collections megascopically, searching for these...University, Tempe, Arizona, the Harrisonville meteorite shows these striations. In the Soviet national...Vavilovka meteorite, a monomict brecciated achondrite (amphoterite); the Zovnevy Khutoz meteorite, a chondrite;...chondrite; and the Pultusk meteorite, a brecciated chondrite. Many meteorites in the Field Museum of Natural |
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