[meteorite-list] Shergotty, Tschermak, Brezina, Mason

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:10 2004
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000003F00001D9D_at_paulinet.de>

Tschermak (1872b) described the Shergotty meteorite as a variety
of eucrite in which the plagioclase is represented by maskelynite.
Brezina (1904) elevated it to a distinct type named shergottite.
However, the utility of such a distinction is not obvious, and
Shergotty and the only other meteorite of this type, Padvarnikai,
are here classed as eucrites.

Reference:

B. Mason (1962) Meteorites (John Wiley and
Sons, Inc., New York and London, p. 113).
Received on Fri 02 Apr 2004 04:20:58 PM PST