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On the chemical composition of the Metearites Amana (= Hamestead) and Eagle Station1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. T. Prior*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum

Extract

The Amana meteorite, known also as Iowa County, Homestead, and West Liberty, is fully described in O. C. Farrington's 'Catalogue of the Meteorites of North America'. After the appearance of a brilliant meteor which on the night of February 12, 1875, passed with loud detonations from S.W. to N.E. over northern Missouri and southern Iowa, about 100 meteoric stones, weighing altogether some 500 lb., were found scattered over an elliptic area of about eighteen square miles from Amana in Amahs township to Boltonville in Iowa township, both in Iowa Co., Iowa.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1918

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Footnotes

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Communicated by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.

References

page 173 note 2 Farrington, O. C., Mem. National Acad. Svi. Washington, 1915, vol. xiii Google Scholar, p. 227.

page 173 note 3 Hinrichs, G. D., Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1875, vol. lxxx, p. 1175Google Scholar.

page 173 note 4 Smith, J. L., Amer. Journ. Sci., 1875, 3 ser., vol. x, p. 357Google Scholar.

page 173 note 5 Gumbel, C. W. and Schwager, A., Sitzungsber. Mitnchen. Akad. Wiss., 1875, vol. v, p. 313Google Scholar.

page 173 note 6 Prior, G. T., On the genetic relationship and classification of meteorites. Mineralogioal Magazine, 1916, vol. xviii, p. 26Google Scholar.

page 175 note * These determinations were made on separate portions of tile total unattracted.

page 175 note † Probably under-estimated, as the separation from iron was by ammonia and not sodium acetate.

page 176 note 1 G. T. Prior, loc. cit., pp. 28, 30.

page 178 note 1 Mackintosh, J. B., Amer. Journ. Sci., 1887, ser. 3, vol. xxxiii, p. 232Google Scholar.

page 178 note * Calculated from the composition of the olivine.

page 178 note 2 A. Brezina and E. Cohen, 'Die Structur und Zusammensetzung der Meteoreisen,' Stuttgart, 1886-1906, vol. i, Taf. xxviii.