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A Chemical Examination of Greenland Telluric Iron

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Joh. Lorenzen
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When in 1870 Nordenskjöld had made the discovery at Blaafjeld (Ovifak) on the Isle of Disco of the remarkable large iron blocks, there soon, as will be remembered, arose a whole literature on the occurrence and origin of this iron. Although the Danish naturalists had, from the first raised a series of objections against the theory of the meteoric origin of these iron-blocks, the problem of their existence could not be satisfactorily solved without careful geological investigations having been first made into the nature of the whole of the Greenland basalt-formation. Such investigations having been made by Mr. K. J. V. Steenstrup, I was directed by the Danish Commission for the Geological and Geographical Survey of Greenland to make a chemical examination of the materials collected.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 6 , Issue 27 , July 1884 , pp. 14 - 38
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1884

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page 14 note † Bihang t. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl., Vol. 5, 1878, No. 10, p. 14.

page 15 note * Bihang t. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. Vol. I. 1872, No. 6.

page 15 note † Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra naturhistorisk Forening i Kjöbenhavn 1875, 284.

page 15 note ‡ Ann. de Chimie et de Physique, 5te série, t.XVI. 1879, pp. 452-505.

page 16 note * Rose. Handbuch d. Anal. Chemie. II. p. 563.

page 17 note * Since the above lines were written in Danish, a new paper by Nordenskjöld has appeared, wberein this matter is discussed from quite a new point of view, the correctness of which, however, the author cannot admit ; but it would take too much space to enter on a further discussion of it here.

page 18 note * l. c. p. 465.

page 22 note * For this observation I am indebted to Mr. Steenstrup.

page 23 note * l. c., 1875, p. 296.

page 24 note * Means, Heir Apparent lsland.

page 25 note * Weiske. Ueber den Kobalt u. Nickelgehalt des Eisens. (Journ. f. praktische Chemie. 1866, p. 479.

page 25 note † Oversigt over det kgl. danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger, 1854, p. 1.

page 25 note ‡ l. c. p. 489.

page 26 note * I am indebted to the kindnesg of Mr. O. Christensen for the determination of phosphorus in my analysis of this specimen.

page 28 note * On Nordenskjöld's Greenland expedition 1870, Dr.Oberg received this specimen from Dr. Pfaff in Jakobshavn. (Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Fòrhandlingar, 1870, p. 1069.)

page 30 note * Japetus Steenstrup, Sur l'emploi du fer météorique par les Esquimaux de Greenland. (Compte-rendu du congrès international d'anthropol, et d'archiol. préhist. Bruxelles, 1872.)

page 31 note * Weiske, l. c.

page 32 note * l.c pp. 481,&c.