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Petrographic Descriptions (Select a sample)
| Sample No.: | LAP 04751 |
| Location: | LaPaz Ice Field |
| Field No.: | 17426 |
| Dimensions (cm): | 1.5x1.0x1.0 |
| Weight (g): | 2.810 |
| Meteorite Type: | H Chondrite (Impact Melt) |
Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
100% brown/black fusion crust with oxidation haloes covers the exterior surface of this ordinary chondrite. The interior is smooth, brown in color.
Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy and Valerie Reynolds
This H chondrite (Fa19Fs16) is dominated by a melted matrix with rounded metal globules of <100 µm in diameter.
Highly-metamorphosed clasts remain at the edge of the section. This small meteorite is an H impact melt breccia.
Thin Section Images
| Plane-Polarized Light LAP 04751 | Reflected Light LAP 04751 |
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Lab Images
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