Re: [meteorite-list] BO - Barred Olivine Chondrule: RFS Picture of the Day

2007-10-02 Thread tracy latimer
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Re: [meteorite-list] BO - Barred Olivine Chondrule: RFS Picture of the Day

2007-10-02 Thread Jeff Grossman
For those of you who don't know what you're looking at in this picture, here is a little explanation. All of the colored bars and the circular rim in this picture are the mineral olivine. The black stuff in between the bars is either feldspathic glass (possible if this is a highly unequilibra

[meteorite-list] BO - Barred Olivine Chondrule: RFS Picture of the Day

2007-10-02 Thread bernd . pauli
Hello again, I just got mail from Marc Fries. Thank you, Marc! Very much appreciated. Now, Marc prefers option #3 and so he writes: "I was thinking option 3), myself. It only takes a thickness variation on the order of 100 nanometers or so to get that color gradient, and if it were chemical I'd

Re: [meteorite-list] BO - Barred Olivine Chondrule: RFS Picture of the Day

2007-10-02 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 10/2/2007 9:47:42 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) the thin section does not have a uniform thickness. (1) and (3) are improbable as both bars and rim seem to be oriented identically (north - south in the picture), so my guess is that the color gra

[meteorite-list] BO - Barred Olivine Chondrule: RFS Picture of the Day

2007-10-02 Thread bernd . pauli
Walter wrote: "Thanks Michael - thank you Andi and John" Yes, thanks a lot ... that's a beautiful barred olivine chondrule! "Okay, I admit I know nothing about thin sections. Someone educate me." Woe, it's me, shame and scandal in the family ... :-)) "What are the vertical pieces that sort of