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Meteoric iron and silica-glass from the meteorite craters of Henbury (Central Australia) and Wabar (Arabia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer
L. J. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department, British Museum of Natural History
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The study of the materials from these two recently discovered occurrences has added much to the knowledge of meteorite craters. The two present many points in common and they supplement one another. At Henbury there is a much better development of the meteoric iron, while at Wabar the silica-glass predominates.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 142 , September 1933 , pp. 387 - 404
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1933

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page 387 note Spencer, L. J., Meteorite craters. Nature, London, 1932, vol. 129, pp. 781-784, 5 figsGoogle Scholar. Meteorite craters as topographical features on the earth's surface. Geogr. Journ. London, 1933, vol. 81, pp. 227-248, 4 pls., 3 text-figs. [Min. Abstr., vol. 5, p. 301.]

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page 388 note 2 A photograph of the 25 lb. mass is reproduced in Mr. Philby's book ' The :Empty Quarter ', fig. 14 a.

page 389 note 1 Alderman, A. R., The Henbury (Central Australia) meteoric iron. Rec. South Australian Museum, 1932, vol. 4, pp. 555-563 Google Scholar, 9 figs. [Min. Abstr., vol. 5, p. 159.]

page 389 note 2 See fig. 11 ; on another specimen there are poor indications of an octahedral fracture

page 389 note 3 An etched sphere of meteoric iron has been described and figured by Goldschmidt, V., Zeits. Kryst. Min., 1909, vol. 46, p. 193 Google Scholar, where he mentioned that the same had been previously done, but not published, by K. Vrba in Praha.

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page 391 note 3 No. 13 on A. R. Alderman's plan, this vol., p. 21.

page 397 note 1 A micro-section of the piece of white glass analysed showed none of the metallic spheres

page 398 note 1 Geogr. Journ. London, 1933, vol. 81, pp. 10, 234, and ' The Empty Quarter ', p. 180.

page 400 note 1 Pictures of such craters are given in the general article on meteorite craters in Geogr. Journ. London, 1933, vol. 81, plates facing pp. 231, 235.

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page 401 note 2 See map in this vol., p. 335, copied from Mr. Philby's map in Geogr. Journ. London, January 1933, vol. 81.

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page 404 note 1 See Spencer, L. J., Origin of tektites. Nature, London, 1933, vol. 131, pp. 117-118 Google Scholar, 876; Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1933, vol. 196, pp. 710-712. |Min. Abstr., vol. 5, p. 304.]