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Enstatite from
Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Enstatite
Formula:Mg2Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enstatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:927099
Long-form Identifier:1:3:927099:2
GUID (UUID V4):cfc81a63-9da0-44e2-9afe-61bfa2731baa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
in your own back yard Author: HUGH CARMAN Hill of Content Editor: TOM KAPITANY To my wife Ann, for...by Marvin Killgore of Arizona, in his demonstration of preparing the meteorite for presentation and...acknowledge the assistance given by the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne in providing meteorites and photographic...presentable manner. First published in Australia in 1995 by Hill of Content Publishing Company Pty Ltd 86...86 Bourke Street Melbourne 3000 Australia © Copyright Hugh Carman 1995 Cover photograph: Rachael Kapitany
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
osmium isotope anomalies in acid leachates of the Murchison meteorite L. Reisberg a,⁎, N. Dauphas b, A. Luguet...Laboratory, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, 5734...Chicago, IL 60637, USA Department of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK d Mine...Astrophysics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, PO Box 28M, Victoria 3800, Australia b c a r t...nucleosynthetic anomalies Os isotopes osmium Murchison meteorite s-process p-process carbonaceous chondrites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
significant amounts of carbon- and nitrogen-bearing components, the most abundant of which is organic matter...matter. Stepped combustion data of whole rock and HF/HCl residues of carbonaceous chondrites reveal that...components present, and as such, the relative abundances of the 13C- and 15 N-enriched LOM and the 13C- and 15N-depleted...composition of the whole-rock meteorite. Laboratory experiments designed to simulate the effects of parent...parent body aqueous alteration indicate that this form of processing removes LOM from the macromolecular material
Report (issue)
Mineral-Chemistry, and Composition of the Murchison (C2) Meteorite LOUIS H. FUCHS, EDWARD OLSEN, and...PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge...knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the...publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made...made from year to year in all branches of knowledge.” This keynote of basic research has been adhered to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbon isotopes in enstatite chondrites and Cumberland Falls PETER DEINES Department of Geosciences, The...Abstract-The carbon isotopic composition of the total carbon in the enstatite chondrites Indarch, Abee, St. Marks...Pillistfer, Hvittis and Daniel’s Kuil and the enstatite achondrite Cumberhmd Falls has been measured....distinct from that of carbonaceous and ordinary chondritea. Within the enstatite chondrite group the...the largeat “C enrichment in the bulk carbon of any meteorite. The carbon isotopic composition is most clearly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MSA Centennial Symposium An evolutionary system of mineralogy. Part I: Stellar mineralogy (>13 to 4...Minerals preserve records of the physical, chemical, and biological histories of their origins and subsequent...vivid narrative of the evolution of Earth and other worlds through billions of years of cosmic history...properties, including trace and minor elements, ratios of isotopes, solid and fluid inclusions, external morphologies...represent information that points to specific modes of formation and subsequent environmental histories—information
Book (edition)
have taken him from the jungles of Africa to the plains of Australia, the moon, Mars and beyond. This...This Field Guide is a compilation of the many m eteorites Robert has been privileged to find or acquire...enjoy this 1oth Anniversary - Field Gulde of Meteorites. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tucson Iron Meteorite . . . . . . . . . . . . lmilac Pallasite . . ...Meteorites - Carbonaceous .. Murchison Meteorite Story . .... . . . Allende Meteorite Story . . .. .. . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Machiite, Al2Ti3O9, a new oxide mineral from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite: A new ultra-refractory...Rossman2 1 Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu,...96822, U.S.A. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena...in a matrix of the Murchison CM2 carbonaceous chondrite. The mean chemical composition of holotype machiite...empirical formula (based on 4+ 4+ 9 oxygen atoms pfu) of (Al1.17Sc0.56Y0.10Ti0.08 Fe0.06Ca0.03Mg0.01)(Ti2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / e p s l Assessment of nebular versus parent body processes on presolar...Walker c a b c Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Tokyo...Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC 20015, USA Department of Geology...Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...a b s t r a c t We report Os isotope compositions of acid residues separated from six carbonaceous chondrites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nucleosynthetic Nd isotope anomalies in primitive enstatite chondrites M. Boyet ⇑, A. Gannoun Clermont Université...We carried out stepwise dissolutions of four primitive enstatite chondrites (EC) belonging to the EH subgroup...the ALHA77295 residue are even greater than those measured in the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite (CC)...be adjusted to coincide by adding a small amount of an s-process-rich carrier phase such as SiC and 0...they can be considered similar within error. In enstatite chondrites, residues have a deïŹcit in 150Nd similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in U.S.A. Refractory inclusions in the Murchison meteorite GLENN J. MACPHERSON,MIRYAM BAR-MATHEWS’,...OLSEN”and LAWRENCEGROSSMAN Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue...petrographic studies of a wide variety of refractory objects from the Murchison C2 chondrite have revealed...melilite-rich and feldspathoid-bearing inclusions in this meteorite, but none 6f these is identical to any inclusion... One inclusion (MUCH-l) consists of a delicate radial aggregate of hibonite crystals surrounded by alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SANTOLIQUIDO of Chemistry, University (Received 24 September 1971; and W. D. EHMANN of Kentucky, Lexington...been determined by alpha counting of the 210Po daughter activity of the Results are presented for thirty...difference in Bi abundances among the different groups of ordinary chondrites. Bismuth concentration decreases...ordinary ohondrites. The enstatite chondrites are separable into two groups on the basis of Bi data. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION pattern of Bi in meteorites has interested many investigators. Early work by REED et al. (1958
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Indarch (EH4) meteorite: Comparison with silicon carbide populations from other meteorite classes SARAS...JOHN ARDEN6 AND c. T. PILLINGERl w. 'Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes...Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K. 2Present address: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-I 19, Smithsonian Institution...5Present address: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch...Branch Road NW, Washington D.C. 20015, USA 6Department of Geology, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Walker b a b c Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Tokyo...Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Department of Terrestrial...Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC 20015, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...acid leachates and residues of these fractions, as well as acid leachates of bulk chondrites. Osmium isotopic...isotopic compositions of bulk carbonaceous, ordinary and enstatite chondrites are also reported. Consistent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Car~naceous chondrites-I. Characterization and si~ificance of carbonaceous chondrite (CM) xenoliths in the Jodzie...94035, U.S.A. %zpartment of Physics and ?Space Science Laboratory, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley...Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. ‘Division of Meteorites, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S...Abstract-Mineralogical, chemical, textural, and isotopic studies of the abundant carbonaceous inclusions in the Jodzie...alteration on a level comparable to the Murray and Murchison meteorites but less than Nagoya, flow-oriented
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meteoritical Society, 1998. Printed in USA. The origin of chondritic macromolecular organic matter: A carbon...Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K. 2Department of Terrestrial...Magnetism, Camegie Institution of Washington, Washington D.C. 20025, USA 3Department of Earth Sciences, University...Oxford, OX1 3PR, U.K. 4Present address: Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London SW7...Abstract-The N and C abundances and isotopic compositions of acid-insoluble carbonaceous material in thirteen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract-The carbon and silicon isotopic compositions of 246 isotopically anomalous Sic grains found in relatively...prepared from nine chondrites are reported. However, two of these residues, from Leoville (CV3) and Qingzhen...meteorites studied included Murchison and six UOCs. The results for Murchison are broadly similar to those...those found by previous Murchison Sic studies. However, no two Murchison studies are identical, implying...number of grains analyzed to date, we still do not have a representative sample of Murchison Sic. Statistical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1016/j.gca.2005.04.020 Tellurium isotopic composition of the early solar system—A search for effects resulting...and DOUGLAS RUMBLE, III6 1 ETH ZĂŒrich, Institute of Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, 8092 ZĂŒrich...Isotope Geology, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College,...Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford OX1 3PR, United Kingdom 5 ETH ZĂŒrich, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry... 8093 ZĂŒrich, Switzerland 6 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotope anomalies and large 13C enrichments in a family of exotic SiC grains J. Stone *, I . D . H u t c h e...Wasserburg ** Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena...suite of morphologically distinctive silicon carbide (SIC) grains from the Orgueil and Murchison carbonaceous...meteorites contains Si and C of highly anomalous isotopic composition. All of the SiC grains in this suite...from other types of SiC found in the host meteorites. The 629Si and 63~)Si values of individual SiC crystals
Book
LAE cc as Pee eg ae Meteorites—the fragments of space debris that survive their fall to Earth—have...complexities of star formation and can explain the earliest + events in the birth of the solar system...oceans, gases of the atmosphere, and other essential inaceatens for the evolution of life. This cunpschensie...meteorites. The authors trace the formation and breakup of planets, asteroids, and comets from which meteorites...their fall to Earth, their recovery, and the wealth of information they hold for eae The authors discuss
Book
PROCESSES VOLUME EDITOR Andrew M. Davis University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG...and Temperature 5.5 Biomass Burning: The Cycling of Gases and Particulates from the Biosphere to the...Geochemical Processes 7.4 Natural Weathering Rates of Silicate Minerals 7.9 Environmental Isotope Applications...Applications in Hydrologic Studies 9.2 The Recycling of Biogenic Material at the Sea Floor 9.8 Coal Formation...Formation and Geochemistry 10.9 The Geologic History of the Carbon Cycle 11.3 Heavy Metals in the Environment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://meteoritics.org Elemental and isotope behavior of macromolecular organic matter from CM chondrites... 4* and Hiroshi NARAOKA2, 3, 5 1Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University...Tsushima-Naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan 2Department of Earth Sciences, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-Naka...Tsushima-Naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan 3Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration...Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan 4Present address: Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grains from meteorites: Remnants from the early times of the solar system Katharina Loddersa,, Sachiko Amarib...Amarib a Planetary Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center...Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA b Department of Physics and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences...populations, and the chemical and isotopic characteristics of the grains and dustforming stars to identify the...Introduction The history of our solar system started with the gravitational collapse of an interstellar molecular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Netherlands 13 [6] EVAPORATION METAMORPHISM OF PRIMITIVE DUST MATERIAL IN THE EARLY SOLAR NEBULA...Department of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464 (Japan) and NAOKI ONUMA Department of Chemistry...material of the Murchison (C2) meteorite up to 1900°C in vacuo has revealed the evaporation sequence of primitive...primitive dust material and the associated evolution of residual solid phases from hydrous silicates through...may have played an important role in the generation of diverse primitive meteorites in the early solar nebula
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Differences in isotopic composition of carbonaceous components in enstatite chondrites M o n i c a M. G r a...P o t h s 3 a n d C.T. Pillinger 1 1 Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall...stable isotopic composition of the major carbonaceous component in enstatite chondrites varies with petrologic...petrologic type. Investigation of a suite of H F / H C l - r e s i s t a n t residues has shown that this...difference in 813C of the carbon, and is not a result of the presence of small amounts of isotopically anomalous
 
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