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Fayalite from
Los Angeles Martian meteorite, California, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Origin locality:Mars
Classification
Species:Fayalite
Formula:Fe22+SiO4
Comments:Composition (Fo5), often intergrown with hedenbergite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fayalite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Los Angeles Martian meteorite, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:932258
Long-form Identifier:1:3:932258:5
GUID (UUID V4):162701a3-c6ac-4440-82aa-78a9a185a95c
References
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available online at http://meteoritics.org Los Angeles: A tale of two stones Paul H. WARREN,1* James...1Institute of Geophysics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095–1567, USA of Geology and Geophysics, Yale...Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520–8109, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail: pwarren@ucla.edu ...of the extremely ferroan and Cr-poor martian meteorite, Los Angeles. The 2 stones are similar in many characteristics...abundantly, fine-grained symplectitic intergrowths of fayalite + ferroan augite + silica (interpreted as pyroxferroite
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Ghilane 002 shergottite—The 100th registered Martian meteorite fragment Jordi LLORCA1,2*, Julia ROSZJAR3...Sciences, California Institute of Technology, MC 100-23, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, California 91125...91125, USA * Corresponding author. E-mail: jordi.llorca@upc.edu (Received 28 December 2011; revision accepted...a composition thought to be characteristic for Martian interior is a dominant component. Measurements...of 35–65 cm radius. KG 002 strongly resembles Los Angeles and NWA 2800 basaltic shergottites in element
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composition of shock-induced melt pockets in the Los Angeles basaltic shergottite Erin L. WALTON * and John...of shock features in the basaltic shergottite Los Angeles (stone 1) reveals: 1) shock recorded in the bulk...front that induced bulk damage. INTRODUCTION Los Angeles is a basaltic shergottite, comprising two relatively...2000). Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd radiometric ages of the meteorite are 165 ± 11 and 172 ± 8 Ma, respectively, with...ejection age of ~3 Ma suggests that Los Angeles was launched from the martian surface at the same time as the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/02 $22.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Crystallization conditions of Los Angeles, a basaltic Martian meteorite DIMITRIOS XIROUCHAKIS,1,* DAVID...Houston, TX 77004, USA 2 Lockheed Martin, 2400 NASA Road One, C23, Houston, TX 77058, USA 3 Consortium for...Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, New York 11973, USA (Received March 24, 2001; accepted in revised form...form December 7, 2001) Abstract—The texture of Los Angeles (stone 1) is dominated by relatively large (0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EMP/SEM study of a three-phase symplectite in the Los Angeles basaltic shergottite Detlef ROST1†*, Thomas STEPHAN1‡...5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail: detlef.rost@manchester...frequently found rimming pyroxene in the Martian meteorite Los Angeles. This assemblage is usually interpreted...The basaltic shergottite Los Angeles is one of the most differentiated Martian meteorites, i.e., it is...1225 © The Meteoritical Society, 2009. Printed in USA. 1226 D. Rost et al. Fig. 1. Pyroxene quadrilateral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract available online at http://meteoritics.org Martian xenon components in Shergotty mineral separates:...Research Drive, Suite 300, Knoxville, Tennessee 37932, USA 2Department of Earth Sciences, The University of...mineral separates by laser step heating. Martian atmosphere and ‘martian interior’ xenon are present, as is...is a spallation component. Martian atmospheric xenon is 5–10 times more concentrated in opaque minerals...previously identified in martian meteorites and associated with the martian interior, is best defined
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A19-Al80 (6 Meteoritical Society. 2000. Printed in USA. A19 (2000) Abstracts DHOFAR 007 AND NORTHWEST...(Dhofar 007) and noncumulated (NWA 011). Results: A meteorite shower, 37 pieces weighing a total of 21,270 g...REE pattern supports a cumulate type of this meteorite also. At the other side the data of NWA 011 are...REE pattern supports a noncumulate type of this meteorite. Thus, these two meteorites belong to different...Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771,USA (xr2aa@Iepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov), 2Department of Chemistry
Book
University, Cambridge, MA, USA Karl K. Turekian Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA VOLUME 1 METEORITES AND...Andrew M. Davis University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN...OX5 1GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA First edition 2003 Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd...Karl K. Turekian, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA This Obituary was first published in Eos, Vol. 93...it, it was just at this time that the Allende meteorite fell and the minerals contained within the so-called
Book
Truran, Jr. and A. Heger University of Chicago, IL, USA 1.01.1 INTRODUCTION 1.01.2 ABUNDANCES AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS...K. Zinner Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA 1.02.1 INTRODUCTION 1.02.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND...grains (Hoppe et al., 1995) from the Murchison meteorite are compared to astronomical measurements of the...bulk samples of SiC extracted from the Murchison meteorite. Isotopic ratios are relative to the reference...result of isotopic equilibration, either on the meteorite parent body or in the laboratory. Apparently,
Book
Truran, Jr. and A. Heger University of Chicago, IL, USA 1.01.1 INTRODUCTION 1.01.2 ABUNDANCES AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS...K. Zinner Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA 1.02.1 INTRODUCTION 1.02.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND...grains (Hoppe et al., 1995) from the Murchison meteorite are compared to astronomical measurements of the...bulk samples of SiC extracted from the Murchison meteorite. Isotopic ratios are relative to the reference...result of isotopic equilibration, either on the meteorite parent body or in the laboratory. Apparently,
 
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