[meteorite-list] Meteoritic chem-reaction book yet published ?

Richard Montgomery rickmont at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 20 19:56:52 EDT 2011


Hello List,

(This is, of course, is coming from a musician, entomologist and mycologist 
by academics, with a dose of high passion for meteoritics thrown in, along 
with a nice growing type-collection and a more-than-average-working 
knowledge of meteoritic petrology...although nothing more along this 
specific line accademically...)   Here's my question:

Is there a book published with petrologic chemical equations defining 
meteorite type?

It's my missing link.  I've devoured all three of O. Richard Norton's books 
(since my original RFS is so dog-eared and bent, I have a hard-bound copy of 
an original; re-read my cherished CEM over and again) and as a proud owner 
of Dante and Marvin's Color Atlas of Meteorites in Thin Section, among 
others (hello Kevin again...great book btw)...  have a semi-confident 
neophyte knowledge (sort-of) of TS petrology....

....and yet, since I'm sorely lacking in any academic petrology, I'm hoping 
there is a meteoritic-type publication out there that literally gives me the 
equations for type designation, in sequence.

Perhaps I'm dreaming, but it is a good dream.

If not, this seems like a niche yet filled.   Help!

-Richard Montgomery


 




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