[meteorite-list] "Fossil" as a [17th century] term for excavated meteorite

From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:14:02 -0500
Message-ID: <4753120A.7080902_at_usgs.gov>

How about this abstract: Nininger, H.H. (1973) Fossil meteorites.
Meteoritics 8, p.61.

 http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=%3F%3F%3F%3FMetic...8&db_key=GEN&page_ind=86&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_VIEW&classic=YES&high=46562617c114850

jeff

bernd.pauli at paulinet.de wrote:
> Chris inquired:
>
> "Can anyone tell me when the word 'fossil' was
> first used to describe meteorites of this kind?
>
> It looks like this word has never been used at any time
> before the late 20th century to describe meteorites.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
>
>
> BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 3, pp. 1403-1408:
>
> Monturaqui:
>
> Taenite ribbons and plessite fields occurred locally; the fields were up to 1.1 x 0.4 mm
> in size, but were "fossil"; i.e., what remained was really only the high-nickel rim zones
> and the retained taenite (austenite) around martensite of high-nickel, high-carbon
> morphology.
>
> Thorslund, P., Wickman, F.E. (1981) Middle Ordovician chondrite in fossiliferous
> limestone from Brunflo, central Sweden (Nature, 289:285- 286).
>
> Catalogue of Meteorites (5th ed.) - Mar'inka: Cosmogenic Mn-53 is also similar to Sikhote-Alin
> values; it gives a terrestrial age of < 10 m.y. Alekseev et al. conclude that Mar'inka cannot be
> a fossil meteorite, but is probably a fragment of Sikhote-Alin, while some details of its trace
> element chemistry differ from Sikhote-Alin (Met.Bull. 72, Meteoritics 27, 1992).
>
> SICREE A.A. et al. (1997) Potential for preservation and recovery of fossil iron meteorites
> from coal, trona, limestone and other sedimentary rocks (Meteoritics 32-4, 1997, A121):
>
> .. Lake Murray (Oklahoma), a IIB coarsest iron (10 mm) found in Cretaceous sandstone
> and the oldest known 'paleoiron' [Ref.: LaPaz L. (1953) Meteoritics 1, pp. 109-113].
>
> KRING D.A. et al. (1998) Gold Basin Meteorite Strewn Field: The 'Fossil' remnants
> of an asteroid that catastrophically fragmented in Earth's atmosphere (Lunar and
> Planetary Science XXIX, in press, 1998).
>
> GOLD D.P. et al. (1999) A strategy for the search and recovery of fossil
> iron meteorites in sedimentary rocks (MAPS 34-4, 1999, A044).
>
> NORTON O.R. (1999) The Lake Murray octahedrite - a "fossil" meteorite
> (M! Nov. 1999, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 22-23).
>
> STEPNIEWSKI M. et al. (2000) Preliminary study of a new enstatite meteorite from
> Zaklodzie - southeast Poland (MAPS 35-5, 2000, Suppl., A152): "...According to the
> present results, Zaklodzie could be a fossil stone altered by weathering processes
> (W1/W2) and preserved in quaternary loess sediment ..."
>
> HECK PH.R. et al. (2003) Evidence for the L-chondrite parent body breakup event?
> Cosmic-ray exposure ages of 480 Myr old fossil meteorites (MAPS 38-7, 2003, A044).
>
>
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