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Forsterite from
Cumberland Falls meteorite, Whitley County, Kentucky, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cumberland Falls meteorite, Whitley County, Kentucky, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:807766
Long-form Identifier:1:3:807766:0
GUID (UUID V4):60da1fa0-c6d0-4fed-9368-ac5b16191feb
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
known aerolite in the world but also the largest meteorite of any type of witnessed falt. The weight of the...intermediate between the aubrites and the Cumberland Falls whitleyite. Brief details are given on the...constants are given for enstat,ite and olivine. The meteorite has a fusion rind ranging from 0.2 mm. to at Ieast...this achondrite gives strong support to the "meteorite-planet" hypothesis favored by Boisse, Farrington...near the common boundary of Norton County, Kansas, and Furnas County, Nebraska. Initial reports describing
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Society, 1989. Printed in USA Lea County 001, an H5 chondrite, and Lea County 002, an ungrouped type 3...77058 USA 'Lockheed, 2400 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058 USA 3Box 767, Ferndale, WA 98248 USA 4Enrico...Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA 'Also Departments of Chemistry and of the Geophysical...near Jal, Lea County, New Mexico resulted in the discovery of two meteorites, Lea County 001 and 002.... Lea County 001 has mean olivine and low-Ca pyroxene compositions of Fa., and Fs l 70 respectively. These
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $22.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...92093-0317, USA 3 Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Mineral Sciences MRC NHB-119, Washington DC 20560, USA (Received...exposure (CRE) age of Norton County, the first measured stony meteorite (Begemann et al., 1957), yields...longest currently known exposure time of a stone meteorite. Gaffey et al. (1992) suggested a link between...occurrence of chondritic inclusions in the Cumberland Falls achondrite (Mason, 1962) and the evidence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1945-5100.2010.01022.x Impact melting in the Cumberland Falls and Mayo Belwa aubrites Alan E. RUBIN* Institute...California, Los Angeles, California 90095–1567, USA *E-mail: aerubin@ucla.edu (Received 29 July 2009;...2009) Abstract–Six chondritic clasts in the Cumberland Falls polymict breccia were examined: four texturally...heterogeneously shocked when it collided with the Cumberland Falls host. Mayo Belwa is the first known aubrite...millimeters in size, constitute 5 vol% of the meteorite. They occur nearly exclusively within the Mayo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGAZINE, JUNE I 9 7 7 , VOL. 4 I, PP. 2 0 I - I O Forsterite ehondrites; the meteorites Kakangari, Mount Morris...crystalline and both are sulphide-rich and contain forsterite and enstatite. Kakangari has well-defined chondrules;...ratios, which result in their having abundant forsterite; this distinguishes them from E-chondrites. The...Fal to Fas, and significant Cr in the sulphide. Cumberland Fails chondritic xenoliths and other exotic fragments...and oxidation state. All have more than Io % forsterite (i.e. an olivine in the range Fao 10). In our
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Code SR, 2101 NASA Road 1, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 2Department of Space Studies, University of North...North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202-9008, USA tPresent address: Department of Geology and Geography...Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8149, USA :tVisiting astronomer at the Infrared Telescope Facility... 1815 © Meteoritical Society, 2002. Printed in USA. 1816 M. S. Kelley and M. J. Gaffey TELESCOPIC...are high-albedo minerals, such as enstatite, forsterite and plagioclase, which are commonly seen in meteorites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California, Los Angeles, California 90095–1567, USA * Corresponding author. E-mail: aerubin@ucla.edu...Lorenzetti et al. 2003; Keil et al. 2011). Cumberland Falls and ALHA78113 are polymict breccias (Binns...projectiles; one of the foreign clasts in Cumberland Falls is an ordinary chondrite impact-melt breccia...Olympus BX60 petrographic microscope. Antarctic meteorite sections are from Johnson Space Center, NASA;...LAP 03719,19; LAP 03780,5; LAR 04316,8; Norton County, USNM 1712-1; Shallowater, USNM 1206-4. Grain sizes
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Carbon isotope relationships in winonaites and forsterite chondrites MONICA M. GRADY and C. T. PILLINGER...Acapulco, plus a chondritic inclusion from the Cumberland Falls aubrite, have been analyzed for their carbon...Pontlyfni and the chondritic inclusion from Cumberland Falls all behave in a common fashion during combustion;...“winonaites”, and there is no basis for including this meteorite in any group with IAB irons or enstatite chondrites...oxygen isotopic composition ofvarious well defined meteorite groups has helped to solve some problems, and
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301—probably along with the chondritic inclusion in Cumberland Falls and ALHA 78113— represent a homogeneous grouplet...grouplet of strongly reduced forsterite-rich chondrites characterized by common textural, chemical, mineralogical...other related chondrite groups. In 2002, the meteorite collector Filiberto Ercolani was prospecting in...Algeria) and found a small meteorite (129 g), which lacked fusion crust. This meteorite was acquired in 2009...76.9) to chondritic inclusions found in the Cumberland Falls INTRODUCTION Chondrites account for more
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shows similarities with chondritic clasts in Cumberland Falls aubrite, and with Northwest Africa 7135 (NWA...samples are dark chondritic clasts in the Cumberland Falls aubrite (CFC). These clasts have whole-rock...an otherwise unsampled “F chondrite” (F for “Forsterite”) parent body which upon a collision with the...aubrite parent body led to the formation of Cumberland Falls polymict breccia (Neal and Lipschutz, 1981)...confirmed pairing of the two fragments. The whole meteorite is deposited at CEREGE. Magnetic susceptibility
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1983.Printed Cumberland Falls chondritic inclusions-II. Trace element contents of forsterite chondrites...Abstract-Mineralogic study of black inclusions in the Cumberland Falls enstatite achondrite revealed that they constitute...chondrite groups. This highly shocked suite, the forsterite (F) chondrites, exhibits mineralogic trends apparently...during its disruptive collision with the enstatite meteorite parent body-is not detectable. Chemical trends...LIPSCHUTZ( 198 1) studied 9 black inclusions in the Cumberland Falls enstatite achondrite mineralogically and reported
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the presence of disorderedenetatite. EIG~ meteorite falls and one find have been classified as enstatite...aubrites, after the Aubres meteorite, or as bustites, from the Bustee meteorite. The mineralogy tlnd bulk...markedly similar and distinct from any other meteorite class. The major mineral present in each of these...(kg) Aubree Biehopville Bu&ee Cumberland Falls Khor Temiki Norton County Pena Blanca Spring Pesyanoe Shallowater... makes up over 76 vol. % of the aasembla,ge. Forsterite and diopside occur with small amounts of plagioclase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highly recrystallized textures; the other, the Cumberland Falls chondrite, has suffered minor metamorphic...alteredcomposition. Udei Station appearsto be a IAB meteorite even though its FeO/(FeO + MgO) ratio is slightly...slightly above the IAB tield. The highly weathered meteorite Tierra Blanca is closely related to IAB but has...phosphate phase. The elemental composition of the Cumberland Falls chondrite is virtually identical to that of...diversity of chondritic portion of Cumberland Falls. Ail except Cumberland materials, and their properties
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0016-7037/88/S3.00 + .oo plc.Printedin U.S.A. Cumberland Falls chondritic inclusions: III. Consortium study...petrologic type 3 chondritic clasts from the Cumberland Falls aubrite and the discovery of small clasts...We also report thermoluminescence data for Cumberland Falls chondritic inclusions and achondritic host...the highly unequilibrated nature of these Cumberland Falls inclusions. Type 3 ordinary chondrites exhibit...metamorphism alone (SEARSand WEEKS, 1986). Whether Cumberland Falls inclusions are related to discrete meteorites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metallographic study of the Angra dos Reis (iron) meteorite. Mineral. Mag. 38,94-101. Axon, H.J. and C.V....exceptionally large chondrule in the Parnallee meteorite. Mineral Mag. 36,319-323. Binns, R.A., 1968. Cognate...chondritic inclusion of unique type in Cumberland Falls meteorite. In Meteorite Research, P.M. Millman, ed., D... 1966. A potassium-argon age for the Barwell meteorite. Nature 210,620. Graham, A.L., AJ. Easton, R.... Hutchison and D.Y. Jerome. 1976. The Bovedy meteorite; mineral chemistry and origin of its Ca-rich glass
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augite and pigeonite; the olivines: chrysolite and forsterite; and the feldspars: anorthite, oligoclase and...after their brecciation. In the unique Cumberland Falls meteorite, obviously made up of fragments of two...tenuous film of metal. A second type of stony meteorite is completely crystalline, like terrestrial rocks...generalway, with the chemicalcompositionof the meteorite. one classof iron with a nickel content of about...structures. This is the commonest class of iron meteorite of which characteristic examplesare Canyon Diablo
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University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA ‘Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Department...University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA (Received December 26, 1990; accepted in revisedform...regoliths are the host materials in Bencubbin and Cumberland Falls. Confirmation of this interpretation will...siderophile abundances than H chondrites. It also falls along an extrapolation of the olivine Fa-kamacite...common meteorites, constituting 79% of observed falls. The three principal groups, H, L, and LL, have
Book
Professor of Chemistry and Geology Director, Nininger Meteorite Collection Arizona State University JOHN WILEY...Chemistry and Geology, Director of: the Nininger Meteorite Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona...announced the transfer of the outstanding Nininger Meteorite Collection to Arizona State University. Throughethe...the National Science Foundation, the Nininger Meteorite Collection was established primarily for purposes...(minerals The of meteorites) relationship of and meteorite Moore (achondrites), studies to the Earth
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obtain a panorama of the scope and substance of meteorite research. I endeavored to remedy this situation...not exhaustively discussed—the great upsurge in meteorite research along many new lines in recent years...and conservation of meteoritic material. Every meteorite is to some degree unique; and meteorites, unlike...I not been favored bv the curatorship of the meteorite collection of The American Museum of Natural History...Chicago Natural History Museum, the Nininger Meteorite Collection (Arizona State University, Tempe),
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
glass. e) A natural wollastonite, from Jefferson County, N. Y. (0.11% MgO, Fe20 a < 0.1%). f) An essentially...essentially :Fe-free enstatite from the Cumberland Falls meteorite. The starting materials were mixed in a...kyanite, Qz quartz, Cc calcite, Sp spinel, Fo forsterite, Opx orthopyroxene~ Cpx clinopyroxene of t h...minerals. The mutual stability of scapolite and forsterite can be estimated from the experimental work on...on the high pressure reaction of forsterite and anorthite of Kushiro and Yoder (1966). At 1300 ~ C and
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from the Sky 17 3 Astronomical 27 4 Meteorite Flight, Falls, and Impacts 37 5 The Morphology of Meteorites...Classification of Meteorites 73 7 The Ratio of Falls to Finds of Various Types of Meteorites- Geographical...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 ...
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discuss the unique chondritic inclusion in the Cumberland Falls aubrite (BINNS, 1969) analyzed by WOLF et...included no allowance for the Ni contributed by the meteorite. The revised Ni values, in percent, are Omans...large discrepancies for Bi in Adhi --_-___--Meteorite al I 1 24 225 __ ~___ -___... __-.-- 2243...elsewhere in the plot. 4. The anomalous chondrite Cumberland Falls VolallleElements itho hll e -+ 1 i -L-...ellipse) is unusually low in metal, as is the Cumberland Falls anomalous chondrite (crosses). Condensation
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Physics University of California Los Angeles, CA 90024/USA Volumes I to 9 in this series appeared under the...provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I...These chapters would have been useful chiefly to meteorite researchers looking for a quick summary of group...quantitative meteorite studies declined during 1970-1973 as a result of the diversion of meteorite researchers'...efforts to the study of lunar samples. The rate of meteorite research activity is now increasing as researchers
 
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