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A new pallasite from Alice Springs, Central Australia

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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Dr. Herbert Basedow of Adelaide generously presented in November 1931 for the British Museum collection of meteorites a pallasite which he had collected in Central Australia in 1924 while leading the Vice-Regal Expedition. During his extensive explorations in Central and Northern Australia it had remained unpacked for some years. He gives the locality as on the Burr Plains, NNE. of Bond Springs in the Alice Springs district ; lat. 23° 33′ S., long. 133° 52′ E. This is immediately north of the MacDonnell Ranges and about ten miles north of Alice Springs. The fragment was found lying on the surface and only partly buried in loose ferruginous sand. No doubt other pieces of this material remain to be found in the district.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 136 , March 1932 , pp. 38 - 42
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1932

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References

page 40 note 1 The analysis of the nickel-iron was made by the chlorine distillation method described on pp. 13, 48 of this volume

page 40 note 2 P. N. Chirvinsky, Pallasites. Bull. Don Polytech. Inst. Novocherkassk, 19] 8, vol. 6, sect. 2, supplement, 19 pp. (Russian). [Min. Abstr., vol. 2, pp. 83-84.]

page 42 note 1 'Australia' is discredited in G. T. Prior's British Museum Catalogue of Meteorites, Appendix, 1927, p. 9; but it appears in C. Pa]ache's Catalogue of the Harvard Collection of Meteorites, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci., 1926, vol. 61, no. 6, p. 152. [Min. Abstr., vol. 3, p. 252.]

page 42 note 2 E. S. Simpson and D. G. Murray, this vol., p. 33.