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Mar 1976
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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 29, no. 2, Mar. 1976, p. 283-290. Research supported by the Robert A. Welch Foundatio
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Carbonaceous Chondrites, Magnetite, Meteoritic Composition, Mineralogy, Thermomagnetic Effects, Graphs (Charts), Magnetization, Oxidation, Temperature Effects, Troilite
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Results are presented for thermomagnetic analysis in a controlled oxygen atmosphere of samples from thirteen C3 chondrites and two C4 chondrites. The examined meteorites are found to have rather diverse thermomagnetic properties, so they are placed into three groups on the basis of their thermomagnetic behavior and magnetic mineralogy: (1) those possibly containing magnetite before heating, but which display a large increase in saturation moment upon cooling to room temperature; (2) those containing magnetite as their major magnetic phase, but which show little change in saturation moment following the heating-cooling cycle; and (3) those which contain iron metal in addition to other magnetic phases. Upper limits are placed on the magnetite content of the five meteorites in group 1 by assuming that the initial saturation moment is due entirely to magnetite, and quantitative estimates of the magnetite content of the four meteorites in group 2 are determined from ambient-temperature saturation magnetization measurements. The data for the six meteorites in group 3 are discussed in terms of nickel content and troilite oxidation. It is concluded that since the magnetic and bulk mineralogies of carbonaceous chondrites are more varied and complex than indicated by whole-rock elemental analyses, the origin of such meteorites cannot be described by a simple model.
Herndon Marvin J.
Larson Edwin E.
Rowe Marvin W.
Watson Donald E.
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