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Kamacite from
Bencubbin meteorite, Bencubbin, Mount Marshall Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Iron var: Kamacite
Formula:(Fe,Ni)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kamacite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bencubbin meteorite, Bencubbin, Mount Marshall Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:857189
Long-form Identifier:1:3:857189:2
GUID (UUID V4):5aaf9a48-08b1-4b8f-ae5f-7bc10a04744c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
726 The Bencubbin meteorite: Further details, including microscopic character of host material and two...[Taken as read 14 March 1968] Summary. The Bencubbin meteorite and some of its enclaves have been studied...stressed the importance of this meteorite in its bearing on meteorite provenance and genesis, and the...University of Western Australia; Honorary Associate, Western Australian Museum. THE BENCUBBIN METEORITE 727...the writer) has tended to favour regarding this meteorite as an iron with silicate inclusions, but, lately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and silicate globules in Gujba: A new Bencubbin-like meteorite fall ALAN E. RUBIN,1,* GREGORY W. KALLEMEYN...Abstract—Gujba is a coarse-grained meteorite fall composed of 41 vol% large kamacite globules, 20 vol% large light-colored...and rare refractory inclusions. Gujba resembles Bencubbin and Weatherford in texture, oxygen-isotopic composition...(26 ⫾ 7 Ma) is essentially identical to that of Bencubbin, suggesting that they were both reduced to meter-size...formed the metal globules. The coarse-grained Bencubbin-Weatherford-Gujba meteorites may represent a depositional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
79’O5OI-M89SO?.(w1 0 of metal clasts in the Bencubbin meteoritic breccia HORTONE. NEWSOM*and MICHAELJ...in reoised form 21 December 1978) Abstract-Bencubbin is a breccia containing metal and silicate clasts...Science IX, pp. 1193-1195). Thus we believe that Bencubbin metal clasts may record chemical information imparted...metal from the nebula. Chromium concentrations in Bencubbin metal (0.05-0.30 wt%) greatly exceed concentrations...condensates from the solar nebula. The Cr-Ni trend in Bencubbin, however, is positively correlated with Ni, in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
451. Ascension Island, vlasovite, 233. Assisi, meteorite, description, mineralogy, 595. Astrophyllite,...The metallographic structure of the Kodaikanal meteorite, 687 ; The metallographic structure of 1190...see potassium-barium feldspars, 914. Barwell meteorite, anal., 101. Baryte, etching of, 750. Basalt,...bannisterite and ganophyllite, 893; celsian, 914. Bencubbin meteorite, descr., descr, and anal. of enclaves in...axinite-epidote- tourmaline vein cutting amphibolite, western Connemara, Eire, 747. Benson, Rhodesia, montebrasite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reducing host regoliths are the host materials in Bencubbin and Cumberland Falls. Confirmation of this interpretation...falls along an extrapolation of the olivine Fa-kamacite Co trend exhibited by H-L-LL chondrites ( RUBIN...LL-like chondrite clasts in the Bencubbin ungrouped subchondritic meteorite (KALLEMEYN et al., 1978) and...sections. Willaroy was recovered in New South Wales, Australia, as four fragments that fit together to form a...properties of the three reduced ordinary chondrites. meteorite mass source (kg) shock effects” weathering camp
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
melts in QUE 94411, Hammadah al Hamra 237, and Bencubbin: Remains of the missing matrix? Anders MEIBOM1†*...Geological Sciences, 112 A.W. Smith Building, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA...(QUE) 94411, Hammadah al Hamra (HH) 237, and Bencubbin with an emphasis on the petrographical and mineralogical...mineralogical effects of the shock processing that these meteorite assemblages have undergone. Ironnickel metal and...94411 and HH 237, and has not been observed in Bencubbin. This material occurs as rare, hydrated matrix
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shock effects: Deciphering the history of the Bencubbin meteorite breccia Claude Perron *, Christine Fiéni...gas and water vapor in three settings in the Bencubbin CB chondrite: in the mesostasis of the silicate...consequence of the impact of the OC fragment onto the Bencubbin parent body. The heavy nitrogen in the bubbles...from one or several of its carrier phases in Bencubbin, and the water came from hydrous silicates. As...melts in QUE 94411, Hammadah al Hamra 237, and Bencubbin: remains of the missing matrix? Meteorit. Planet
Book
Formerly Reader in Geology at the University of Western Australia David & Charles: Newton Abbot ISBN 0 7153...Stones from the Sky 17 3 Astronomical 27 4 Meteorite Flight, Falls, and Impacts 37 5 The Morphology...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
low-Ni group with 3.7 ⫾ 0.1 wt% Ni, indicating that kamacite/taenite equilibration at ⬃1020 K was followed...high-Ni and low-Ni metal in a manner consistent with kamacite/taenite fractionation, but the refractory siderophiles...show correlated variations that are unrelated to kamacite/taenite partitioning and indicate that variations...refractory depleted and volatile rich relative to Bencubbin and related metal-rich chondrites but bears strong...composition of GRO 95551 is very different from Bencubbin and close to that of the ordinary chondrites (Weisberg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PriIltca in NorthernIrcfnnd The Weatherford Meteorite BRIAN U.S. National (Received MASON and J. NELEN...20560 1 February 1968) Ab,&&--The Weatherford meteorite is a highly shocked breccia of nickel-iron (5...half of the meteorite by weight. The composition of the non-magnetic portion of the meteorite is: SiO, 47...56, C 0.11, FeS 1.62, Fe 1.34, Ni 0.10. Trrrs meteorite, a single mass weighing about 2 kg, was plowed... P. Henderson, and the museum as a suspected meteorite. purchased the major portion, weighing 1431 g
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal overlaps that of metal in CR chondrites and Bencubbin. These trends are similar to those of calculated...many similarities with CR chondrites and the Bencubbin metal-silicate chondritic assemblage and may be...analyses any known chondrite, except for the Bencubbin BO . 1 - 0.1 6.3 1 1 . Silicate portions...those in E, H and CR chondrites and the Bencubbin meteorite ALH85085 EH3 (Parsa) 26.0 69.1 a 4.8 0...16.7 0.6 [6] EH4,5 (avg.) H CR (Renazzo) Bencubbin Silicates Olivine Pyroxene Feldspar/glass Silica
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amsterdam [FB] Allan Hills 85085" A subchondritic meteorite of mixed nebular and regolithic heritage J o h...ABSTRACT Allan Hills 85085 is a tiny (12-g) meteorite whose closest relatives are the Renazzo and AI...and the subchondritic host material in the Bencubbin meteorite. Its bulk composition is generally chondritic...Netschaevo and Cumberland Falls) and others (e.g. Bencubbin host materials, Lodran, clasts in IAB irons) that...certain phases. An interesting and controversial meteorite is Allan Hills 85085 (henceforth ALH85085), which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 1966 SOCIETY No. 276 The petrology of the Mount Padbury mesosiderite and its achondrite enclaves...1966] Summary. The petrography of the Mount Padbury meteorite, previously briefly recorded, is described...The wider implications of this new and unique meteorite find are briefly considered. c C A L L a n d Cleverly... 1 University of Western Australia, Geology Department. Honorary Associate, Western Australian Museum...School of Mines, KMgoorlie, and in those of the Western Australian FIND Museum, Perth. Two of the largest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chondrites have been among the most perplexing meteorite groups. Their origin and relationship with other...The texture of this clast is similar to that of kamacite-enstatite intergrowths in some enstatite chondrites...et al. 1997). f) Enlargement of C13 showing the kamacite-enstatite intergrowth. g) C12 shows the interior...clasts with similar texture of intergrown enstatite-kamacite. In this case, the enstatite occurs as laths about...chondrules that are smaller in size than in the host meteorite. l) Porphyritic pyroxene (PP) chondrule inside
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
similarity of Cu distributions, and degree of kamacite/ taenite exsolution, between zoned and unzoned...1995; Krot et al., 2002), indicating that these meteorite groups, including the CR (Weisberg et al., 1993)...observed such a correlation in metal in the Bencubbin (CBa) meteorite, with an approximately chondritic Ni/Co...not responsible for the metal compositions in Bencubbin (Campbell et al., 2002a) or in Grosvenor Mountains...characteristics of metal in the CBa chondrites, Bencubbin, Gujba and Weatherford, were not produced by condensation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
atypical) occurring as an inclusion in the Bencubbin meteorite, Australia. The Hungaria group of Mars-crossing...size-time space is well represented by museum meteorite collections.) Identifiable projectiles producing...the projectile were a chondrite or a metal-rich meteorite, the extremely low Ni, Ir, OS enrichments (~4...@PIK, l%l) and would imply that representative meteorite-bearing melt and breccia formations were not sampled...definitely associated with impact of an iron meteorite. These craters are generally small, and it is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has the highest Ge/Ga ratio known in an iron meteorite, a ratio 18 x higher than that in Cl chondrites...therefore been used to establish 12 independent iron meteorite groups (WASSON, 1967; 1969; 1970; WAS~ON useful...analytical uncertainty, or one value had Chem. Meteorite Allan Hills A76&.)? Ah Bela Armanty Rarbacena...Source abbreviations are as follows: AML- American Meteorite Laboratory: AMNHAmerican Museum of Natural History;...seem consistent with origin in a single core. Kamacite bandwidth within the group increases with increasing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ga (Kelly and Turner 1987), and glass from CBa Bencubbin gives Ar-Ar ages of 4.20  0.05 Ga (Marty et al...preferred alignment of metal have been noted in CBa Bencubbin (Meibom et al. 2005). All of these features indicate...metal-rich and contain >40 vol% kamacite (Fe,Ni) grains. Individual kamacite grains are commonly grouped...“particles” to describe the groupings of individual kamacite grains because it does not imply any specific...composed of homogeneous (unzoned) kamacite grains, homogeneous (unzoned) kamacite grains containing sulfide inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation of metal in the metal-rich chondrites Bencubbin, Weatherford, and Gujba ANDREW J. CAMPBELL,1,*...Pt, and Au in metal grains in the Bencubbin-like chondrites Bencubbin, Weatherford, and Gujba to determine...inconsistent with the following proposed origins of Bencubbin-Weatherford-Gujba metal: (1) condensation from...et al., 2000). The metal has not decomposed to kamacite ⫹ taenite, even in Ni-rich regions; this apparent...divided the CB chondrites into two subgroups, with Bencubbin and Weatherford in CBa and Queen Alexandra Range
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...of an incomplete sam- signed to the IAB iron meteorite group, its silicate inclusions are more oxidized...(1977) (201 Nmon and N&en (19681 sizes. The meteorite is heavily weathered and contains veins of hematite/limonite...CI), they noted the presence of large patches of kamacite that are probably the source of the metal inhomogeneity
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 ...
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TREMORGIO (CANTON TICINO) AS A POSSIBLE QUARTERNARY METEORITE IMPACT CRATER IN THE SWISS ALPS Kurt Bachtiger...the author had, some years ago, the idea of a meteorite impact crater in the Quarternary, i.e. 20-50,000...some interpretations will be attempted. 171 K Meteorite Type (ppm) johnstown (whole rock) Di 853...Total Ar 39_Ar40 age (G.Y.) 4.38 4.07 maximum Meteorite minimum Bjurbole 4.12 3.46 3.96 3.98 1.62 ... An agglutinate is born when a primary micro-meteorite impact (velocity - 20 km/sec) melts a little surface
Book
discuss recent evidence from the “84001 Martian meteorite,” which has raised provocative new questions...Press University of New South Wales Sydney 2052 Australia Beware of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data...interior. Ancient rocks in continents such as Australia, Africa and North America formed as long ago as...as 3800 million years. Other rocks, from Western Australia, contain a legacy of mineral grains worn ...Wainwright at Gerzeh in Egypt. tions observed meteorite falls, collected the debris and wrote accounts
Book
Professor of Chemistry and Geology Director, Nininger Meteorite Collection Arizona State University JOHN WILEY...Australian National University, Canberra, A, C,T, Australia G.K.MANNING, Technical Manager, Metallurgy Department...Chemistry and Geology, Director of: the Nininger Meteorite Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona...Geophysics, lian National University, Canberra, Australia AustraA.C.T. PETER SIGNER, Sscehool of Physies...announced the transfer of the outstanding Nininger Meteorite Collection to Arizona State University. Throughethe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VERCHOVSKY3, and Ian A. FRANCHI3 1Southwest Meteorite Center, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University...study of the Fountain Hills chondritic meteorite. This meteorite is closely related to the CBa class. Mineral...CBb (Weisberg et al. 2001). The CBa chondrites Bencubbin, Weatherford, Gujba, and Miller Range (MIL) 05802...well-defined chondrules. This meteorite was purchased by Southwest Meteorite Laboratory from a resident...resident of Fountain Hills, Arizona, who found the meteorite in the desert near his home. A specimen was loaned
 
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