Glassy material found in some meteorites and meteorite impact craters
Maskelynite (meteoritic glass)
NWA 1195, a Martian meteorite composed largely of maskelynite
General
Category
Glass
Identification
Luster
Vitreous
Maskelynite is a glassy material found in some meteorites and meteorite impact craters. Typical samples are similar in composition to plagioclase feldspar, and revert to that mineral when melted and recrystallized. It was named after British geologist M.H.N. Story-Maskelyne.
Since maskelynite (like the volcanic glass obsidian) lacks an orderly arrangement of atoms, it is not considered a "mineral" by geologists, and is not listed as such by the Mineralogical Society of America.
Maskelynite is a glassy material found in some meteorites and meteorite impact craters. Typical samples are similar in composition to plagioclase feldspar...
the fact that most of the rock's plagioclase content was converted to maskelynite and/or plagioclase glass. Great Scott Big Bertha Meyer, C (2009). "61016"...
asteroid. The presence of plagioclase that has been either converted into maskelynite or contains planar deformation features has confirmed the impact origin...
noticeable. (Eu) Eucrite: Crystalline or breccia. (*) Shergotty: Augite and maskelynite. (II) Olivine, bronzite, enstatite. Meteoric iron barely noticeable....
that the meteorite was composed of ~55% olivine, ~35% pyroxene, ~8% maskelynite and ~2% opaques. In March 2019, researchers reported the possibility...
District Municipality, Lithuania. It is a rare eucrite that contains maskelynite (a glassy phase found in some meteorite impact craters) and is highly...
Mars. Compare Category:Meteorites found on bodies other than Earth. Maskelynite – a natural glass found in meteorites. Matrix – the mineral assemblage...
and deformation features in olivine; alteration of plagioclase into maskelynite; formation of dark melt veins S6: very strongly shocked (75-90 GPa);...
rocks, martian meteorite Meteoric iron Fe and Ni in different ratios Maskelynite Mackinawite (Fe,Ni)1 + xS (where x = 0 to 0.11) Majorite Mg3(MgSi)(SiO4)3...
of photography and an associate of Fox Talbot. The meteoritic mineral maskelynite was named after him. Mervyn was the eldest son of Antony Mervin Reeve...
lithology B, resembles fine grained shergotty. The major minerals are maskelynite and clinopyroxene, with small occurrence of calcium phosphate, magnetite...
taenite and plessite), magnetite, troilite, plagioclase, schreibersite, maskelynite and chromite. The meteorite is classified as an Ordinary chondrite of...
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