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Striated Surfaces on Meteorites: Shock Fractures, Not Slickensides
Author(s) -
DIETZ ROBERT S.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1966.tb00351.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , geology , chondrite , shock (circulatory) , fault (geology) , geochemistry , astrobiology , paleontology , biology , medicine
Veined and brecciated chondrites commonly display striated fractures which have been interpreted as slickensides (fault dislocations). Observations on several such fractures in various collections suggest they are not true slickensides but, instead, are probably shock features related to shatter coning.