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

From: chris aubeck <caubeck_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:24:21 +0100
Message-ID: <3a5693b30712021324m20c695a8l5e4c9551c4424956_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have found several references from 1871, using Google Book Search.

Viewing is restricted to:

"Fossil Meteorite.? A new meteorite has just been discovered in the mioc?ne ...
This is the first instance on record of a truly fossil meteorite having been"

You can see further examples here:

http://books.google.es/books?q=%22fossil+meteorite%22

I don't know what it is referring to.

Best,

Chris

On 02 Dec 2007 20:03:16 UT, <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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