WANDERING ABOUT MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Contributions to mineralogy and petrology

High-silica topaz-bearing rhyolites of Cenozoic emplaced as domes, lava flows or shallow intrusions. They age are widely distributed across the western USA and may also contain Fe-Mn garnet, beryl, bixbyite, pseudoMexico. They are characteristically enriched in fluorine brookite, hematite and fluorite in miarolitic cavities or with(>0.2 wt.%) and incompatible lithophile elements (e.g. Li, in th...

Contributions to mineralogy and petrology

A geochemically and mineralogically diverse group neous aspect can form as products of different proof granitoids is present within an area of 900 km2 in the cesses . . . " Within an area of 900 km2 in the southern Snake southern Snake Range of eastern Nevada. The granitoids Range, White Pine County, Nevada, six igneous masses exposed range in age from Jurassic through Cretaceous to are well ex...

Mineralogy and petrology of a lunar highland breccia

Mineralogy and petrology of comet 81P/Wild 2 nucleus samples.

The bulk of the comet 81P/Wild 2 (hereafter Wild 2) samples returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft appear to be weakly constructed mixtures of nanometer-scale grains, with occasional much larger (over 1 micrometer) ferromagnesian silicates, Fe-Ni sulfides, Fe-Ni metal, and accessory phases. The very wide range of olivine and low-Ca pyroxene compositions in comet Wild 2 requires a wide ran...

Mineralogy and Petrology of Stardust Particles Extracted from the Walls

Introduction: Since the return to Earth of the Wild 2 comet samples by the Stardust mission, most of the studies have been performed on terminal particles located at the end of the deceleration tracks. However, the major fraction of the cometary material is unevenly distributed along the track walls [1,2]. Particles within samples extracted from the walls show strong collectinduced thermal alte...