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The Woodbine meteorite, with notes on silicates in iron meteorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Brian Mason
Brian Mason*
Affiliation:
U.S. National Museum, Washington
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Summary

The Woodbine meteorite, ploughed up in Illinois in 1953, is a fine octahedrite with numerous inclusions of silicate minerals. The minerals present include kamacite, taenite, troilite, schreibersite, orthopyroxene (Fs6), diopside, olivine (Fa4), plagioclase (An9), and graphite. The chemical analysis is: Fe 73·06, Ni 9·08, Co 0·15, P 0·47, C 0·21, FeS 1·65, SiO2 8·55, TiO2 0·02, Al2O3 0·53, Cr2O3 0·03, FeO 0·49, MnO 0·03, MgO 5·19, CaO 0·34, Na2O 0·29, K2O 0·02, sum 100·11. Woodbine is compared with other meteorites of similar composition. The silicate material has chondritic composition, and is quite different from the silicate material of the mesosiderites, with which some of these meteorites have been classed.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 277 , March 1967 , pp. 120 - 126
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1967

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