[meteorite-list] Re: Did Gibeons Collide?

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Feb 16 00:47:05 2005
Message-ID: <q1o5119clu283oie8uh15unulofjmo7bnm_at_4ax.com>

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:06:32 +0100, "Martin Altmann" <Altmann_at_Meteorite-Martin.de> wrote:

>Hi Ruben,
>
>> Has anyone else ever seen ( outside of a museum)
>> something like this?
>
>yes.
>
>In Buehlers book, p.120, is a 50cm Gibeon slice, composed from 9 taenite
>crytals, all with different orientation of the Thompson (how politically
>corret I am today) structure (i.e. Widmannstaetter Pattern). My old scanner
>left me 2 weeks ago, perhaps Bernd may scan it for you.

I don't have the book you mention, but here's a good explanitory illustration from the 1987 edition
of Meteorites and their Parent Planets (page 164) showing how different sections through a crystal
give different patterns:

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/matpb.gif
Received on Wed 16 Feb 2005 12:58:00 AM PST