[meteorite-list] "Fossil" as a [17th century] term for excavated meteorite

[chris aubeck]

Hi,

I have found several references from 1871, using Google Book Search.

Viewing is restricted to:

"Fossil Meteorite.— A new meteorite has just been discovered in the miocène ...
This is the first instance on record of a truly fossil meteorite having been"

You can see further examples here:

http://books.google.es/books?q=%22fossil+meteorite%22

I don't know what it is referring to.

Best,

Chris

On 02 Dec 2007 20:03:16 UT,  <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:

> Chris inquired:

>

> "Can anyone tell me when the word 'fossil' was

>  first used to describe meteorites of this kind?

>

> It looks like this word has never been used at any time

> before the late 20th century to describe meteorites.

>

> Best regards,

>

> Bernd

>

>

> BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 3, pp. 1403-1408:

>

> Monturaqui:

>

> Taenite ribbons and plessite fields occurred locally; the fields were up to 1.1 x 0.4 mm

> in size, but were "fossil"; i.e., what remained was really only the high-nickel rim zones

> and the retained taenite (austenite) around martensite of high-nickel, high-carbon

> morphology.

>

> Thorslund, P., Wickman, F.E. (1981) Middle Ordovician chondrite in fossiliferous

> limestone from Brunflo, central Sweden (Nature, 289:285- 286).

>

> Catalogue of Meteorites (5th ed.) - Mar'inka: Cosmogenic Mn-53 is also similar to Sikhote-Alin

> values; it gives a terrestrial age of < 10 m.y. Alekseev et al. conclude that Mar'inka cannot be

> a fossil meteorite, but is probably a fragment of Sikhote-Alin, while some details of its trace

> element chemistry differ from Sikhote-Alin (Met.Bull. 72, Meteoritics 27, 1992).

>

> SICREE A.A. et al. (1997) Potential for preservation and recovery of fossil iron meteorites

> from coal, trona, limestone and other sedimentary rocks (Meteoritics 32-4, 1997, A121):

>

> .. Lake Murray (Oklahoma), a IIB coarsest iron (10 mm) found in Cretaceous sandstone

> and the oldest known 'paleoiron' [Ref.: LaPaz L. (1953) Meteoritics 1, pp. 109-113].

>

> KRING D.A. et al. (1998) Gold Basin Meteorite Strewn Field: The 'Fossil' remnants

> of an asteroid that catastrophically fragmented in Earth's atmosphere (Lunar and

> Planetary Science XXIX, in press, 1998).

>

> GOLD D.P. et al. (1999) A strategy for the search and recovery of fossil

> iron meteorites in sedimentary rocks (MAPS 34-4, 1999, A044).

>

> NORTON O.R. (1999) The Lake Murray octahedrite - a "fossil" meteorite

> (M! Nov. 1999, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 22-23).

>

> STEPNIEWSKI M. et al. (2000) Preliminary study of a new enstatite meteorite from

> Zaklodzie - southeast Poland (MAPS 35-5, 2000, Suppl., A152): "...According to the

> present results, Zaklodzie could be a fossil stone altered by weathering processes

> (W1/W2) and preserved in quaternary loess sediment ..."

>

> HECK PH.R. et al. (2003) Evidence for the L-chondrite parent body breakup event?

> Cosmic-ray exposure ages of 480 Myr old fossil meteorites (MAPS 38-7, 2003, A044).

>

>

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