[meteorite-list] Carancas with slickensides?

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:58:58 -0400
Message-ID: <fjlig31f9c2eqnlot7mvbdemna0eb9ci75_at_4ax.com>

On 07 Oct 2007 21:47:22 UT, you wrote:

>Hello again,
>
>Please, take a close look (and enlarge if possible) Mike Farmer's picture
>(page 3, first picture) of the pieces he collected or acquired. Right below
>the largest fragment that weighs approximately 38 grams (according to
>Mike's own comment), there are three relatively "large" pieces in the 6
>o'clock position. Just a tad above the two on the left (roughly 7 o'clock),
>there is a much smaller, blocky piece that looks "striated". Could that be
>slickensides, which would testify to the enormous stress that this stone
>was exposed to?!

If you mean this one:

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/peruspeck.jpg

I've already asked Mike about it, and he says that it is the metallic nodule
that he found (and not for sale).
Received on Sun 07 Oct 2007 05:58:58 PM PDT


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