[meteorite-list] Finding fossil Meteorites

From: Count Deiro <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:08:32 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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Thank you for the map, Yinan. I agree that there will be more meteor wrongs than meteorites found. The usual field tests (I like that alteration halo) followed by cutting and microscopy would be determinative for my needs. I think it would be way cool to recover, classify and name a "fossil" meteorite. It puts a whole new perspective on "hunting".

By the way...have you, or any others on List, found a fossil meteorite in situ?

Best regards,

Count Deiro
IMCA 3536


-----Original Message-----
>From: Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 25, 2010 1:54 PM
>To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Finding fossil Meteorites
>
>As a fossil collector, I can tell you that there are tons of
>meteor-wrongs in sedimentary rock. The main reason is that a lot of
>metallic concretions form in sedimentary rock diagenetically; hematite
>nodules, iron phosphates, pyrite concretions, marcasite, etc.
>
>So you would find good layers of limestone and then suddenly there's a
>meteorite-shaped nodule... But you guys know how to ID meteorites.
>
>For Count Deiro; here's a link to a geologic map of Nevada:
>http://geology.about.com/od/maps/ig/stategeomaps/NVgeomap.htm
>
>-Yinan
>
>
>
>On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Count Deiro <countdeiro at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hello Martin, Dave and List,
>>
>> This is very interesting information and I would like to ask if there are persons on List who could tell me if Nevada has Ordovician limestone deposits recorded and where I could access such data.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Count deiro
>> IMCA 3536
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Matthew Martin <mmartin at meteoritetreasures.com>
>>>Sent: Oct 25, 2010 3:03 PM
>>>To: Dave Myers <whitefalcons007 at yahoo.com>
>>>Cc: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Finding fossil Meteorites
>>>
>>>Hello Dave & List,
>>>
>>>Dave, thanks for sharing this article. ?I found it very interesting
>>>and admit that I had never given a second thought to the possibility
>>>of meteorites being buried in sedimentary rock just as once living
>>>organisms. ?I also found the information on their fossilization very
>>>cool. ?Thanks again for sharing. ?For anyone who has not read it yet,
>>>it's a short, yet informative article.
>>>
>>>As for your stones, Dave, I am not a minerologist, so I will not
>>>speculate on their type. ?If I were to give a guess though, I'd say
>>>they're terrestrial.
>>>
>>>Aloha!
>>>
>>>Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Quoting Dave Myers <whitefalcons007 at yahoo.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi List,
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone read this great artical about meteorites being found in Ordivician
>>>> fossil limestone.
>>>> After reading it I starting searching months ago. And found 2 very
>>>> interesting
>>>> stones, One looks like it could be a diogenite and the other stone has a
>>>> subophitic texture like some lunars and a few Angrites
>>>>
>>>> So here is a link to the artical if you have not read it,
>>>> http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Mar04/fossilMeteorites.html
>>>>
>>>> and second is link is to my face book page with pictures of what I found and
>>>> where they were found, Just wondering are they worth getting tested, I do not
>>>> want to waste money if there not.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any info.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=47781&id=100000209843157
>>>>
>>>>
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