[meteorite-list] Delay and porphyritic

2007-03-23 Thread bernd . pauli
What can be the reason for this messages to appear with a delay of 32h? AA porphyritic? Are you sure? The meteorites cool down in a single stage, I believe Hi Armando and List, No idea why there is such a delay! Furthermore, I do not know for sure about the porphyritic thing. This was not

Re: [meteorite-list] Delay and porphyritic

2007-03-23 Thread Norm Lehrman
Armando , Bernd, all, Porphyritic is a textural term. In terrestrial igneous rocks it results from multiple-stage cooling, but I see no reason why you can't run it backwards with incomplete melting. If olivine is the common phenocryst phase, this would make sense in that it has an extremely