[meteorite-list] Shocked or not shocked?

Horace Heffner hheffner at mtaonline.net
Fri Mar 27 07:37:24 EDT 2009


Question: does this basalt look like it is shocked?

Optical 40x and 100x.

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/S2TwistA40x.jpg

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/S2BundlesD100x.jpg

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/S2BundlesB100x.jpg

Electron micrograph 300x:

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/HH1_01_300x_30kV_02.jpg

These small multi-oriented and broken grain features seem to match  
some shocked material photos here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect18/Sect18_3.html


At least one local granite rock looks like this, even in much larger  
magnification:

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/LocalBasaltA40x.jpg

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/LocalBasaltB40x.jpg

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/ 
20090327localBasaltInterior10x.jpg

http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/ 
20090327localBasaltCrust10x.jpg

The above, to my untrained eye, looks to be not shocked, while the  
first set of photos show shocked basalt. The question is, do the  
first set of photos actually show a basalt that is shocked?

HH



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