Hi, I have found several references from 1871, using Google Book Search.
Viewing is restricted to: "Fossil Meteorite.— A new meteorite has just been discovered in the miocène ... This is the first instance on record of a truly fossil meteorite having been" You can see further examples here: http://books.google.es/books?q=%22fossil+meteorite%22 I don't know what it is referring to. Best, Chris On 02 Dec 2007 20:03:16 UT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris inquired: > > "Can anyone tell me when the word 'fossil' was > first used to describe meteorites of this kind? > > It looks like this word has never been used at any time > before the late 20th century to describe meteorites. > > Best regards, > > Bernd > > > BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 3, pp. 1403-1408: > > Monturaqui: > > Taenite ribbons and plessite fields occurred locally; the fields were up to > 1.1 x 0.4 mm > in size, but were "fossil"; i.e., what remained was really only the > high-nickel rim zones > and the retained taenite (austenite) around martensite of high-nickel, > high-carbon > morphology. > > Thorslund, P., Wickman, F.E. (1981) Middle Ordovician chondrite in > fossiliferous > limestone from Brunflo, central Sweden (Nature, 289:285- 286). > > Catalogue of Meteorites (5th ed.) - Mar'inka: Cosmogenic Mn-53 is also > similar to Sikhote-Alin > values; it gives a terrestrial age of < 10 m.y. Alekseev et al. conclude that > Mar'inka cannot be > a fossil meteorite, but is probably a fragment of Sikhote-Alin, while some > details of its trace > element chemistry differ from Sikhote-Alin (Met.Bull. 72, Meteoritics 27, > 1992). > > SICREE A.A. et al. (1997) Potential for preservation and recovery of fossil > iron meteorites > from coal, trona, limestone and other sedimentary rocks (Meteoritics 32-4, > 1997, A121): > > .. Lake Murray (Oklahoma), a IIB coarsest iron (10 mm) found in Cretaceous > sandstone > and the oldest known 'paleoiron' [Ref.: LaPaz L. (1953) Meteoritics 1, pp. > 109-113]. > > KRING D.A. et al. (1998) Gold Basin Meteorite Strewn Field: The 'Fossil' > remnants > of an asteroid that catastrophically fragmented in Earth's atmosphere (Lunar > and > Planetary Science XXIX, in press, 1998). > > GOLD D.P. et al. (1999) A strategy for the search and recovery of fossil > iron meteorites in sedimentary rocks (MAPS 34-4, 1999, A044). > > NORTON O.R. (1999) The Lake Murray octahedrite - a "fossil" meteorite > (M! Nov. 1999, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 22-23). > > STEPNIEWSKI M. et al. (2000) Preliminary study of a new enstatite meteorite > from > Zaklodzie - southeast Poland (MAPS 35-5, 2000, Suppl., A152): "...According > to the > present results, Zaklodzie could be a fossil stone altered by weathering > processes > (W1/W2) and preserved in quaternary loess sediment ..." > > HECK PH.R. et al. (2003) Evidence for the L-chondrite parent body breakup > event? > Cosmic-ray exposure ages of 480 Myr old fossil meteorites (MAPS 38-7, 2003, > A044). > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
