To clarify...there is some shock line evidence...small cracks here and there with a couple chondrules cracked in half.
John > Hello all, > > I'm looking at a few slices of some unclassified NWA meteorites sent to me > from another list member to help him try to identify a few, and one of them > has a very strange makeup to it. It is a meteorite first off. Nice fusion > crust is evident on the back of this end piece. Not much weathering...a bit > of a stained rind but hardly noticeable. > > It is a chondrite or related because it has a few distinct black porophrytic > chondrules...but the rest of the matrix is igneous looking filled with long > lathes of lighter glass which is darkened by other minerals that must include > magnetite. No metal is evident, but it is paramagnetic...not strong but more > than most LL's for sure. No veins or shock lines are evident. > > If had not seen chondrules I would be sure it was a planetary basalt or > similar. What is it? > > Could this be a highly shocked and blackened L6 or LL6, or maybe more like > the same for a CK6. Or maybe something new...another primitive chondrite/or > some kind of transitional material that it unique? > > The lack of metal visually along with it's decent paramagnetism is strange. > > As I said in my subject line "What does a shock stage 6 look like?" > > I'll add one more "Has anyone seen a chondrite with an igneous looking > texture?" I would love to thin section this baby. It is so strange. > > John > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
