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On the remarkable similarity in chemical and mineral composition of chondritic meteoric stones1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. T. Prior
G. T. Prior*
Affiliation:
Minerals in the British Museum
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The observation of the striking similarity both in chemical and mineral composition of the Baroti, Wittekrantz, and St. Michel meteorites (see the preceding paper) suggested the idea of testing how far such a close relationship applied to other cbondritic meteoric stones.

The practical identity in chemical composition of different meteoric stones has been often pointed out. For example, A. E. Nordenskiöld showed in the case of the stones of Erxleben, Lixna, Blansko, Ohaba, Pillistfer, Dundrum, Hessle, Orvinio, and Stäilldalen that the percentage chemical compositions differed very slightly if the proportions of the metals, silicon, &c., were considered instead of the oxides.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 78 , December 1913 , pp. 33 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1913

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Communicated by permission of the Trustees of the British museum.

References

page 33 note 2 Nordenskiöld, A. E., Geol. Fören. Förh. Stockholm, 1878, vol. iv, p. 56 Google Scholar ; abstract in Neues Jahrb. Min., 1879, p. 77.

page 33 note 3 ‘Ck’, of Brezina's Classification.

page 33 note 4 See Tschormak, G., Sitz.-Ber. Akad. Wien, 1907, vol. cxvi, p. 1430 Google Scholar, and Fletcher, L., 'An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites,' 10th edit., 1908, p. 46 Google Scholar.

page 34 note 1 Farrington, O. C., 'Analyses of Stone Meteorites,' Field Mus. of Natural History, Chicago, 1911, Publication 151, Geol. Set., vol. iii, No. 9, pp. 195–229 Google Scholar.

page 34 note 2 Cross, W. and others, 'Quantitative Classification of Igneous Rocks,' Chicago, 1903 Google Scholar.

page 35 note 1 See Friedheim, C., Sitz.-Ber. Berlin. Akad., 1888, p. 845 Google Scholar.