[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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