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The metallographic structure of the iron meteorites Arltunga, Kopjes ,Vlei, Murnpeowie, Braunau, and Rancho de la Pila

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. J. Axon
H. J. Axon*
Affiliation:
Metallurgy Department, The University, Manchester 13
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Summary

From a metallographic examination it is suggested that Rancho de la Pila is a shock-hardened octahedrite; Murnpeowie is a cosmically reheated meteorite of unusual composition; Kopjes Vlei may have been produced by the reheating of a shock-hardened hexahedrite either cosmically or on earth; Braunau shows signs of preterrestrial reheating but Arltunga is a nickel-rich ataxite with no signs of metabolic alteration.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 284 , December 1968 , pp. 1139 - 1142
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1968

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