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A new meteoric stone from Suwahib, Arabia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. Campbell Smith
W. Campbell Smith*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department, British Museum of Natural History
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Extract

Starting in December 1930, Mr. Bertram Thomas made the crossing of the Rub' al Khali, the desert region of Arabia lying between the mountains of the south coast and the Persian Gulf. Never before had this desert been crossed by any European, and probably rarely even by Arabs. The material collected on this expedition has been presented by Mr. Thomas for preservation in the British Museum.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 136 , March 1932 , pp. 43 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1932

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Footnotes

With chemical analyses by M. H. HeyY, B.A., B.Sc.

1

A preliminary account was given in an appendix to Mr. Thomas's paper, ‘A camel journey across the Rub' al Khali’, in the Geogr. Journ. London, 1931, vol. 78, 13. 236. There the specific gravity is given incorrectly.

References

page 46 note 1 Prior, G. T., Min. Mag., 1916, vol. 18, p. 11.Google Scholar

page 46 note 2 Couyat, J., Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1912, vol. 155, p. 916.Google Scholar

page 47 note 1 E. de Oliveira lists a meteorite [N. 2640] from 'Arabia' in the collection of the Museu Nacional at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but he gives no description. (Ann. Acad. Brasileira Sei., 1931, vol. 3, p. 52, and Min. Abstr., 1932, vol. 5, p. 14). This is probably a piece of the Hedjaz stone. A pseudo-meteorite from 'Yafaee Mountains, Arabia' was included in the British Museum lists of 1886 (p. 69) to 1896 (p. 86).

page 48 note 1 Prior, G. T., Min. Mug., 1916, vol. 18, p. 10.Google Scholar