[meteorite-list] Cooling rates

[Steve Dunklee]

Interesting idea, as railroad drawheads and metal presses after repeated pounding over many years also show stress patterns which resemble Widmanstatten. So could it be repeated pounding from collisions in addition to slow cooling which contribute to the variety of patterns? I really have no Idea but believe it possible.

http://www.materialsengineer.com/

the second pic on the right  looks like some widmanstattens'

have a great day

Steve



--- On Sat, 9/5/09, E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Cooling rates
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 7:30 PM
> Hi all - 
> 
> Could the Widmanstatten patterns simply be the result of
> incredibly high compression instead?
> 
> E.P.
> 
> 
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