maybe this is my answer

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2002/pdf/1053.pdf


John


> 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
> > 
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