[meteorite-list] Cooling or...

[Steve Dunklee]

or the impacts stopped the crystal growth  of the irons, causing muionalusta, gibeon and campos  having the same or similar age yet different band widths  depending on when an impactor stopped  the crystal growth of the widmanstattens.
cheers
Steve

--- On Mon, 9/7/09, E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Cooling or...
> To: mstreman53 at yahoo.com
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 4:50 PM
> Hi Elton - 
> 
> What I am wondering is if the compression forces are so
> large that an alloy does not form, but rather compounds,
> which then freeze in place when the compression forces are
> nearly instantaneously released. 
> 
> 250 seems like a lot of parent bodies. 
> 
> Ed
> E.P. Grondine
> Man and Impact in the Americas
> 
> 
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