| Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
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| Species: | Spinel |
| Formula: | MgAl2O4 |
| Comments: | Fe2SiO4-spinel.
In melt-vein. |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Spinel data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Umbarger meteorite, Randall County, Texas, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 304770 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:304770:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | ade9e855-8669-40f6-88f2-e6019e8d9469 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Spinel |
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| 41.0km (25.5 miles) | ⓘDimmitt meteorite, Dimmitt, Castro County, Texas, USA |
| 97.6km (60.6 miles) | ⓘPlainview (1917) meteorite, Hale County, Texas, USA |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Book | | Virgil L. Sharpton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/4698...Oberlin, OH USA Billy P. Glass Department of Geology University of Delaware Newark, DE USA ISSN 1612-8338... in the 1890s. Numerous fragments of an iron meteorite were found scattered around the crater and Gilbert...impact of a large iron meteorite. Gilbert believed that the bulk of the iron meteorite should have been buried...able to find evidence of a large mass of iron meteorite beneath the crater floor as he expected. Because |
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