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THE QUIJINGUE METEORITE: A PALLASITE FROM BAHIA, BRAZIL

1999; Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia; Volume: 29; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.25249/0375-7536.199929447448

ISSN

2177-4382

Autores

José Moacyr Vianna Coutinho, EDUARDO BRANDAU QUITETE, MIRIAM CRUXEN BARROS DE OLIVEIRA,

Tópico(s)

Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Resumo

The Quijingue meteorite is a single Slone of 59 kg found in Bahia, northeastern Brazil, sometime around 1960.It has been classified as a pallasite and contains olivine (FaD) , iron-nickel metal (kamacite + taenite), troilite, schreibersite and chromite.In rounded off integers, olivine 69 % vol.and Ni-Fe mctal 28% vol.are the maj or constituents regularly distributed in a "pallasitic" texture .The morphological character istics indicate that the Quijingue stone is a " main-group" pallasite .A combination of modal and mineral analysis allowed an approximation to the meteorite real chemical composition

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