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Majorite from
Shergotty Martian meteorite, Gaya District, Bihar, India


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Origin locality:Mars
Classification
Species:Majorite
Formula:Mg3(MgSi)(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Majorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shergotty Martian meteorite, Gaya District, Bihar, India
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:151702
Long-form Identifier:1:3:151702:6
GUID (UUID V4):0c2d9b52-783d-42e0-9a79-6d3c27727fb7
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/epsl The breakdown of diopside to Ca-rich majorite and glass in a shocked H chondrite Naotaka Tomioka...January 2003 Abstract Fine-grained assemblages of majorite and glassy grains are for the first time identified...a shock-induced melt vein in an H chondritic meteorite. The bulk chemical composition of these aggregates...of diopside CaMgSi2 O6 in the host rock. Both majorite and glassy grains are Ca-rich and their formulae...Keywords: shock event; H chondrite; diopside; majorite; perovskite 1. Introduction Olivine, high-Ca
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shock melt vein in the Villalbeto de la Pe~ na meteorite: Insights into the shock behavior of diopside...transformed into ringwoodite, low-Ca majorite, high-Ca majorite, and an assemblage of jadeite-lingunite...shock-induced melting, and the occurrence of natural Ca-majorite formed by solid-state transformation from diopside...a melt and also occurs interstitially between majorite-pyrope grains in the melt-vein matrix. In addition...addition, we have observed compositional zoning in majorite-pyrope grains in the matrix of the shock-melt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/gca Shock conditions recorded in NWA 8159 martian augite basalt with implications for the impact...November 2018 Abstract NWA 8159 is an augite-rich martian basalt, formed by cooling of a relatively evolved...high fO2, NWA 8159 is also set apart from most martian shergottites with respect to the low degree of...better constrain the unusal shock history of this meteorite. The transformation of olivine to ahrensite (Fe-ringwoodite)...of previous shock pressure estimates for this meteorite (15–23 GPa). The presence of a majoritic garnet-bearing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2017). In 2008, Dera et al. discovered that the meteorite mineral allabogdanite, Fe2P, is the result of...transforms the rock-forming minerals ringwoodite and majorite into periclase and bridgmanite (Fig. 2, Ringwood...Recently stishovite was reported from a lunar meteorite (Kaneko et al. 2015). Presence of stishovite in...approved mineral that was found in the Shergotty and Zagami martian meteorites (Dera et al. 2002; El Goresy...high for the peak shock pressures that the Shergotty meteorite had experienced prior ejection from Mars
Book (edition)
departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...245(8) - 1.020(8) - 0.943(8). From the Tissint meteorite, Tissint, Morocco. IMA 2013-028. Aiolosite Na...te gneiss in the suevite breccia of the Ries meteorite impact crater, N of Nordlingen, Bavaria, Germany...clinopyroxene-rich matrix from the Allende chondrite meteorite, Chihuahua, Mexico. 40th Lun. Plan. Sci. Conf...-yite in Fe-rich serpentinite from the Kaidun meteorite, southern Yemen. AM 93, 1295-1299, 2008. Andrianovite
 
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