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FW: Vugs, vacuoles and voids
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- Subject: FW: Vugs, vacuoles and voids
- From: Steven Excell <excell@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:46:58 -0700
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Hello Gene, Jim and List,
GENE WROTE:
"it might be possible for Albion type vugs to form in the liquid cores of
differentiated bodies."
Albion is the only known specimen with this type of drusy vugs. If the vugs originated in the deep inner core, it would also help explain why they are so rare. It would take a mammoth impact - or a series of very large impacts -- to break open an iron core and expose material from the very center or near center. I would be more perplexed and mystified if the drusy vugs were common in many irons - which is not the case, thank goodness.
Steve
Seattle, Washington USA