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


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Nepheline
Formula:Na3K(Al4Si4O16)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nepheline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:927110
Long-form Identifier:1:3:927110:4
GUID (UUID V4):9d09eceb-aad0-47f8-aaa1-2c541d0ec2e9
Nearest other occurrences of Nepheline
46.3km (28.8 miles) Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://meteoritics.org Magnetic remanence in the Murchison meteorite Gunther KLETETSCHKA,1, 2* Tomas KOHOUT,3...3Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, and Institute of Geology, Academy...Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic *Corresponding author. E-mail: gunther.kletetschka@gsfc.nasa.gov...Abstract–The Murchison meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite containing a small amount of chondrules,...inclusions, and matrix with occasional porphyroblasts of olivine and/or pyroxene. It also contains amino acids
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineraiogy and petrogenesis of a hibonite inclusion from the Murchison meteorite* JOHN T. ARMSTRONG,G. P...LunaticAsylum,Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena...detailed mineralogic, chemical, and petrologic study of the Blue Angel, a relatively large (- 1.5 mm) hibonite-containing...inclusion from the Murchison meteorite, was performed in an attempt to understand the mechanisms of formation...modification of hibonite-rich inclusions. The Blue Angel inclusion is composed of roughly equal amounts of hibonite
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)
Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113, Japan 'Present address: Dept. of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657, Japan 'Present address: Onoda Cement Co...to 80 vol% of nepheline, along with minor sodalite, and thus are among the most nepheline-rich CAIs known...amounts of Fe (0 to 57 mol% FeAl,O.) and is commonly zoned. Texture suggests that nepheline is a secondary...alteration of the primary phases, so most of it was probably already consumed to form nepheline. The majority
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the LancC (C03) The history of an ultrarefractory CA1 meteorite: ALBERT J. FAHEY,“* ERNST ZINNER...Vienna, Austria ‘Department of Earth Sciences, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames...isotopic compositions of a hibonite-rich refractory inclusion from the Lance CO3 meteorite. The inclusion,... 290 X 230 pm in size, consists of a core of hibonite crystals containing small perovskite grains, surrounded...all measured phases with an increasing depletion of the REEs heavier than Tb with increasing mass in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S0016-7037(97)00374-8 An isotopic and petrologic study of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions from CO3 meteorites...Lunatic Asylum, Division of Geological and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena...Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2 Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London...and petrology of 229 calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) from ten CO3 meteorites of petrologic types...types 3.0 –3.7. Subsets of these inclusions were measured by ion probe for magnesium, calcium, and titanium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in U.S.A. Mineral chemistry and origin of spinel-rich inclusions in the Allende CV3 chondrite...February 8, 1985) Abstract-The mineral chemistry of 20 spinel-rich inclusions (and spinel-rich nodules...probe microanalysis. Variations in the chemistry of hibonite are explained by a coupled substitution...substitution among Al, Ti, Mg, Si, Fe, and V. Two types of perovskite occur: (I) a variety enriched in the super-refractory...contains a significant amount of Fe (15 wt% FeO) and small amounts of Cr, V, Zn, Ca, and Ti; there are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S0016-7037(98)00245-2 Hydrothermal experiments on alteration of Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) in carbonaceous chondrites:...Mineralogical Institute, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan (Received...Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) which consist mainly of refractory minerals including gehlenite, spinel,...basis of thermodynamic calculations. However, many CAIs contain secondary minerals such as nepheline, calcite...calcite, and phyllosilicates. The formation process of secondary minerals in CAIs is still controversial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concentrations of refractory Iithophile and siderophile elements, with strong enrichments of the most refractory...elements (Lu, Sc, Hf) in one part of the inclusion. The inclusion consists of a melilite-rich core partially...consisting of spine1 + fassaite or spine1 + hibonite. These framboids are probably spherules of the types...types reported from Murchison, and were possibly captured by the molten inclusion before it solidified....and the spinel-rich spherules in Murchison. The rim sequence consists of the following five layers from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meteoritical Society, 1998. Printed in USA. Origin of hibonite-pyroxene spherules found in carbonaceous...ERNSTK. ZI"ER3 'Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue...60637, USA 2Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois...form 1998 January 6) Abstract-We have studied both of the known glass-free, hibonite-pyroxene spherules:...consist of hibonite plates (-2 wt% TiOT' ) enclosed in Al-rich pyroxene that has such high amounts of CaTs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Formation of orange hibonite, as inferred from some Allende inclusions S. B. SIMON[*, A. M. DAVIS'J AND...AND L. GROSSMAN'J 'Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue...Illinois 60637, USA 2Enrico Ferrni Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois...inclusions, unlike that in Murchison, has low rare earth element abundances of <10 x CI; in the other inclusion...consistent with (26AlPAl)1= 5 x 10-5. Much of the hibonite and some of the spinel in these inclusions is corroded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Al-rich objects in ordinary chondrites: Related origin of carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites and their constituents...and K. KEIL’ Department of Geology and Institute of Meteoritic%University of New Mexico, Albuquerque...Absmct-Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs), common constituents of carbonaceous chondrites, have been studied extensively...formed at high temperatures during the early history of the solar system. Few CAIs have previously been discovered...containing unequilibrated material, the unique meteorite Kakangari, and a few types 5 and 6 ordinary chondrites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/chemer A light, chondritic xenolith in the Murchison (CM) chondrite – Formation by fluid-assisted percolation...Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany f Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry, Technische Universität...mineralogical characteristics of a large light-colored clast within the Murchison CM breccia are discussed...Petrographic study shows that the white clast consists of two areas with different granoblastic textures: (1)...lithology (average grain-size: ˜20 μm). The Fa-content of olivine in the clast is the same as Fa within olivine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in U.S.A. Origin of zoned fine-grained inclusions in the Allende meteorite ANNE V. MCGUIRE* and AKIHIKO...Ca-Al-rich inclusions in the Allende meteorite show a consistent pattern of mineralogic and textural zonation... consists mostly of spine], nepheline, Aldiopside and salite, with minor amounts of olivine, sodalite...others, zone A is made of 5 to 30 pm-sized, spinel-centered, multi-rimmed objects, and of liner-grained, loosely...intermediate zone, B, is characterized by the presence of hedenbergite and andradite (in addition to the minerals
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
Report (issue)
SCIENCES • NUMBER 25 Inclusions in the Allende Meteorite Brian Mason and S.R. Taylor ISSUED OCT 51982...SMITHSONIAN PUBLICATIONS SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS City of Washington 1982 ABSTRACT Mason, Brian, and S...S.R. Taylor. Inclusions in the Allende Meteorite. Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences, number...—Six discrete groups of inclusions have been distinguished in the Allende meteorite. Groups I, V, and VI...are mostly fine-grained aggregates made up largely of spinel and fassaite; Group IV are olivine-rich aggregates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Raman investigation of sulfur speciation and structural order in Murchison and Allende meteorites...School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85283-1604, USA Department of Soil...Soil, Water & Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0038, USA * Corresponding...IOM extracted from two carbonaceous chondrites, Murchison and Allende, was studied using sulfur K-edge XANES...that the sulfurfunctional group chemistry of both the Murchison IOM and hydrothermally treated IOM samples
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Allende meteorite S. B. SIMON1*, K. D. MCKEEGAN2, D. S. EBELI AND L. GROSSMANl,3 ]Department of the Geophysical...Avenue, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 2Department of Earth and Space Sciences...Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA 'The Enrico Fermi Institute...Institute, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA *Correspondence...refractory inclusions, the Murchison meteorite contains Cr-rich, 160-poor spinels, most of whose sources are unknown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meteoritical Society, 1994. Printed in USA. Alteration of calcium- and aluminium-rich inclusions in the Murray...GREENWOOD^ 1Department of Physics, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K. 2Department of Mineralogy, The...K *Present address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh...revisedform 1994 June 13) Abstract-Four different types of calcium- and aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs) have...CM2 chondrite Murray, three of which contain alteration products. Two types of altered CAIs, spinel inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yamazaki a a Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Tokyo...chondrites, Allende, Murchison, and Tagish Lake, together with those in the bulk aliquots of these meteorites...multiple nucleosynthetic sources within a single meteorite. In addition, the μ84 Sr patterns across leaching...O, 75 ◦ C) for Allende and Murchison likely because of the incorporation of calcium and aluminum-rich...fractions (Steps 6 and 7) for Murchison and Tagish Lake, suggesting the existence of s-process-enriched presolar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
online at http://meteoritics.org Identification of minerals and meteoritic materials via Raman techniques...School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NH, UK 2Department of Mineralogy...Abstract–Mineral particles analogous to components of cosmic dust were tested to determine if their Raman...micrometers, and in some cases the captured particles were of a similar small size. In some samples fired into...shift in the wave numbers of some of the Raman bands was observed, a result of the trapped particles being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
biotic? RYUICHI SUGISAKI and KOICHI MIMURA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nagoya University,...revised form February 2, 1994) Abstract-Analyses of 227 rocks from fifty localities throughout the world...such as gabbro and granite lack them. The occurrence of hydrocarbons indicates that they were not derived...called here “mantle hydrocarbons.” The existence of hydrocarbons correlates with petrogenesis. For example...chromatographic-mass spectrometric records of the mantle hydrocarbons resemble those of aliphatics in meteorites and
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)
Accepted Manuscript Hyperspectral FTIR imaging of irradiated carbonaceous meteorites R. Brunetto, C....Kitazato, K., Pilorget, C., Hyperspectral FTIR imaging of irradiated carbonaceous meteorites, Planetary and...doi: 10.1016/ j.pss.2018.05.008. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for...version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Hyperspectral FTIR imaging of irradiated carbonaceous meteorites R. Brunetto1,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(CAIs) that differ from CAIs found in other types of meteorites. The ALH85085 inclusions are smaller (...chondrites. We have performed a comprehensive study of these inc!uions: forty-two for petrography and mineralogy...(CA1 125). The mineralogy of the CAIs is dominated by oxide phases. About half of the inclusions contain...others are reminiscent of recrystallization due to thermal processing. Many of the CAIs are coated with...with a double layer of gehlenitic melilite and diopside or a single layer of diopside. The CAIs analyzed
 
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