[meteorite-list] Lherzolites -- expand SNC to SNCL?

From: Treiman, Allan <Treiman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:35 2004
Message-ID: <9CBE44BF7DE9D511960300500424D7D0112EDB_at_cassnt2>

Dont forget ALH84001!

  Call them SNACL. Or better, just Martian
meteorites.

aht

Allan H. Treiman
Senior Staff Scientist
Lunar and Planetary Institute
3600 Bay Area Boulevard
Houston, TX 77058-1113
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matson, Robert [mailto:ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:58 PM
To: 'David Weir'; Norbert Classen
Cc: Meteorite Mailing List
Subject: [meteorite-list] Lherzolites -- expand SNC to SNCL?


Hi David, Norbert and List,

David inquired:

> I wonder why it is still the convention to name this Martian group
> "lherzolitic shergottites". Although this geochemical group was
> historically included as a subgroup within the shergottite class,
> and therefore its members were called lherzolitic shergottites (or
> shergottitic peridotites), there is no genetic relationship between
> the basaltic and lherzolitic subgroups. The term "lherzolites" was
> proposed by Eugster and Polnau in 1997 to represent this unique
> group of Martian meteorites.

Perhaps some day we'll expand SNC (snick) to SNCL (snickle/snickel).
At least it would maintain a pronounceable acronym. ;-) --Rob

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