[meteorite-list] xenolithic breccia's?

Walter Branch branchw at bellsouth.net
Sun Jul 10 21:46:47 EDT 2005


What is the difference between a polymict breccia
and xenolithic breccia?

-Walter Branch


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: "met list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] xenolithic breccia's?


On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:28:34 -0700, "Tom Knudson"
<peregrineflier at npgcable.com> wrote:

>Hello good people of the list!!!  Sure is slow today!!!  So, what is a
>xenolithic breccia?  What meteorites are considered a xenolithic breccia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenolith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breccia


>On Google, I only find Ghubara, but that can't be the only one.

One of my favorites was just mentioned a few days back-- NWA 3119

http://www.meteorites.com.au/features/nwa3119.html

and my much more modest piece

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/nwa3119_both.jpg
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