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THE GOSNELLS IRON — A FRAGMENT OF THE MOUNT DOOLING OCTAHEDRITE
Author(s) -
Laeter J.R.,
McCall G.J.H.,
Reed S.J.B.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1972.tb00127.x
Subject(s) - mount , fragment (logic) , chemistry , geology , group (periodic table) , mineralogy , geochemistry , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , algorithm , organic chemistry
A 1.5 kg iron found in 1960 at Gosnells, near Perth, Western Australia, belongs to Wasson's chemical group I‐An3 and is structurally unusual, being best described as a heat‐altered granular coarse octahedrite. It is chemically and structurally very similar to the Mount Dooling iron, found in 1909 about 400 km away, and has a fracture surface which fits the Mount Dooling mass very closely. The Gosnells fragment was probably transported by human agency, though it is not known when or by whom .