[meteorite-list] Portales Valley Q
From: David Weir <dgweir_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Oct 21 14:48:33 2006 Message-ID: <453A6B68.1040003_at_earthlink.net> Michael, This was the subject on the list just a year ago. I had expressed my favor of the journal article by A. Ruzicka et al. (2005), which referred to PV by a new term -- H-chondrite, metallic-melt breccia. Jeff Grossman posted the following in reply, which actually does seem like a completely logical classification based on the petrogenesis proposed in the above paper: ---------------------------------------------- Obviously there is disagreement among scientists on what to call PV. I personally see no reason to call it type 7, a primitive achondrite, an achondrite OR to coin a new term. If I take the conclusions of the Ruzicka study as a given, that you had H6 material near its peak metamorphic temperature, which additional shock heating and mobilization of metal-rich melt, then I see no reason not call it an H chondrite impact melt breccia in which the clasts are dominantly type 6. jeff ------------------------------------------------- David Received on Sat 21 Oct 2006 02:48:08 PM PDT |
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