Is not this the same question which was raised a few days ago clothed in the
form of "meteorite shale", which was answered quite effectively??
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "chris aubeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "Fossil" as a [17th century] term for
excavated meteorite
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).
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