[meteorite-list] New Zealand: more 'meteorites' on their shelves....

[Robert Verish]

Would like to see some images of those nodules from
the Chalk Beds.  Especially if they look different
from these sulfide nodules:

http://www.galleries.com/scripts/item.exe?LIST+Minerals+Sulfides+Marcasite

http://www.mindat.org/phorum/download.php?f=17&file=marcasiteresized.jpg

http://www.southwesternsales.net/ebay/marcasite.html

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Aubrey Whymark tinbider at yahoo.co.uk 
Wed Jun 16 14:23:11 EDT 2004 

Looks exactly like a marcasite/pyrite nodule.  We get
loads from the Cretaceous Lower Chalk in Southern
England that look identical.  They are also regularly
confused with meteorites.
 
Aubrey

Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl> wrote:
Every odd rock in New Zealand now starts to be a
meteorite it seems. Here's
the newest:

http://times-age.co.nz/news2004/040616b.html

No likely meteorite if I look at this picture.
Markasite nodule perhaps?

- Marco

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Marco Langbroek