What Allan is alluding to, is that the usage of the term "SNC" has now "gone out of favor". Most editors are replacing this term with . . . like the one that Allan suggested.
Bob V. ----------- Original Message ---------- [meteorite-list] Lherzolites -- expand SNC to SNCL? Treiman, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:25:58 -0500 Dont forget ALH84001! Call them SNACL. Or better, just Martian meteorites. aht Allan H. Treiman Senior Staff Scientist Lunar and Planetary Institute 3600 Bay Area Boulevard Houston, TX 77058-1113 281-486-2117 281-486-2162 (FAX) -----Original Message----- From: Matson, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:58 PM To: 'David Weir'; Norbert Classen Cc: Meteorite Mailing List Subject: [meteorite-list] Lherzolites -- expand SNC to SNCL? Hi David, Norbert and List, David inquired: > I wonder why it is still the convention to name this Martian group "lherzolitic shergottites". Although this geochemical group was historically included as a subgroup within the shergottite class, and therefore its members were called lherzolitic shergottites (or > shergottitic peridotites), there is no genetic relationship between the basaltic and lherzolitic subgroups. The term "lherzolites" was proposed by Eugster and Polnau in 1997 to represent this unique group of Martian meteorites. Perhaps some day we'll expand SNC (snick) to SNCL (snickle/snickel). At least it would maintain a pronounceable acronym. ;-) --Rob ______________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
