[meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

[Darren Garrison]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:41:54 +0000, you wrote:

>Playing Devil's advocate for a moment, is there a chance the author is 
>fudging the findings?  Could the proposed results be replicated by, say,
> firing a shotgun shell full of coarse iron filings at a tusk, like using paper 
>from the appropriate era to forge a historical document?  

I'm wondering if there might have been some sort of attempt to clean the
fossils, such as listed under "MECHANICAL PREPARATION" here

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/resources/prep.htm 

that could have damaged the fossils and left behind bits of iron.