Greg all,
Nice specimens.
Just a minor side point: the term is slickensides
for the striated, movement-polished surface itself, or
slickensided for a rock showing slickensides. Your
version is a common, but erroneous, transliteration.
Cheers,
Norm
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-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites and Slick-n-Slide
Greg all,
Nice specimens.
Just a minor side point: the term is slickensides
for the striated, movement-polished surface itself, or
slickensided for a rock showing slickensides. Your
version is a common, but erroneous, transliteration.
Cheers,
Norm
: [meteorite-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites
and Slick-n-Slide
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:18:31 -0800 (PST)
Greg all,
Nice specimens.
Just a minor side point: the term is slickensides
for the striated, movement-polished surface itself,
or
slickensided for a rock showing slickensides.
Your
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Cool Fresh Chondrites and Slick-n-Slide
Pete list,
There are meteorites with slickenside?!
It would have to be Martian, then, right?
Yes, slickensided meteorites have been discussed
several times on the list. But no, they don't have to
be planetary. I would only
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