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Graphite from
Cumberland Falls meteorite, Whitley County, Kentucky, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Graphite
Formula:C
Comments:In an unusual chondritic clast
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cumberland Falls meteorite, Whitley County, Kentucky, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:912264
Long-form Identifier:1:3:912264:2
GUID (UUID V4):beb00bff-200c-4f3d-8489-b880d8547aae
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
known aerolite in the world but also the largest meteorite of any type of witnessed falt. The weight of the...intermediate between the aubrites and the Cumberland Falls whitleyite. Brief details are given on the...nickel-iron pellets; abundant, small flakes of graphite; diallage; and iron-rust stains. Microscopic examination...constants are given for enstat,ite and olivine. The meteorite has a fusion rind ranging from 0.2 mm. to at Ieast...this achondrite gives strong support to the "meteorite-planet" hypothesis favored by Boisse, Farrington
Journal (issue)
Meteorite Times Magazine Contents by Editor Featured Monthly Articles Accretion Desk by Martin Horejsi...Horejsi Jim's Fragments by Jim Tobin Meteorite Market Trends by Michael Blood Bob's Findings by Robert Verish...Micro Visions by John Kashuba Meteorite Calendar by Anne Black Meteorite of the Month by Editor Tektite...necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The Meteorite Exchange, Inc., nor those of any person connected...connected therewith. In no event shall The Meteorite Exchange, Inc. be responsible for, nor liable for, exposure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $22.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...92093-0317, USA 3 Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Mineral Sciences MRC NHB-119, Washington DC 20560, USA (Received...exposure (CRE) age of Norton County, the first measured stony meteorite (Begemann et al., 1957), yields...longest currently known exposure time of a stone meteorite. Gaffey et al. (1992) suggested a link between...occurrence of chondritic inclusions in the Cumberland Falls achondrite (Mason, 1962) and the evidence
Book
Professor of Chemistry and Geology Director, Nininger Meteorite Collection Arizona State University JOHN WILEY...Chemistry and Geology, Director of: the Nininger Meteorite Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona...announced the transfer of the outstanding Nininger Meteorite Collection to Arizona State University. Throughethe...the National Science Foundation, the Nininger Meteorite Collection was established primarily for purposes...(minerals The of meteorites) relationship of and meteorite Moore (achondrites), studies to the Earth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Acapulco, plus a chondritic inclusion from the Cumberland Falls aubrite, have been analyzed for their carbon...Pontlyfni and the chondritic inclusion from Cumberland Falls all behave in a common fashion during combustion;...indigenous carbon component in these specimens is graphite, with a Si3Cvalue of between -9.5 and -2.8460...8460,close to the range reported for graphite in both enstatite chondrites and IAB irons. Thus the links...“winonaites”, and there is no basis for including this meteorite in any group with IAB irons or enstatite chondrites
Report (volume)
Boletin de Miuas, nos. 5, 6. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no.... vol. 11, vol. 12, nos. 1, 2. Lawrence, Kans. Kentucky Geological Survey : 4th ser., vol. 3, pt. 3, vol...Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Fayette County, Wehster County. Morganton, W. Va. Wisconsin...1920]. (with Wiuton, W. M.). The geology of Tarrant County: Texas, Univ., Bull. no. 1931, 123 pp., 6 pis.... 1920. Arey, Melvin F. 35. Geology of Ringgold County: Iowa Geol. Survey, vol. 27, pp. 33-64, 6 figs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Code SR, 2101 NASA Road 1, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 2Department of Space Studies, University of North...North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202-9008, USA tPresent address: Department of Geology and Geography...Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8149, USA :tVisiting astronomer at the Infrared Telescope Facility... 1815 © Meteoritical Society, 2002. Printed in USA. 1816 M. S. Kelley and M. J. Gaffey TELESCOPIC...such concentrations of this mineral exist in meteorite collections, then it is certainly a well-guarded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA ‘Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Department...University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA (Received December 26, 1990; accepted in revisedform...regoliths are the host materials in Bencubbin and Cumberland Falls. Confirmation of this interpretation will...siderophile abundances than H chondrites. It also falls along an extrapolation of the olivine Fa-kamacite...common meteorites, constituting 79% of observed falls. The three principal groups, H, L, and LL, have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shows similarities with chondritic clasts in Cumberland Falls aubrite, and with Northwest Africa 7135 (NWA...samples are dark chondritic clasts in the Cumberland Falls aubrite (CFC). These clasts have whole-rock...aubrite parent body led to the formation of Cumberland Falls polymict breccia (Neal and Lipschutz, 1981)...confirmed pairing of the two fragments. The whole meteorite is deposited at CEREGE. Magnetic susceptibility...sections of NWA 7135 (from CEREGE collection) and Cumberland Falls aubrite (section #2840-2 from Muséum National
Book
obtain a panorama of the scope and substance of meteorite research. I endeavored to remedy this situation...not exhaustively discussed—the great upsurge in meteorite research along many new lines in recent years...and conservation of meteoritic material. Every meteorite is to some degree unique; and meteorites, unlike...I not been favored bv the curatorship of the meteorite collection of The American Museum of Natural History...Chicago Natural History Museum, the Nininger Meteorite Collection (Arizona State University, Tempe),
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accessoryminerals are the two forms of carbon, diamond and graphite; the carbides cohenite and moissanite; the sulfides...after their brecciation. In the unique Cumberland Falls meteorite, obviously made up of fragments of two...tenuous film of metal. A second type of stony meteorite is completely crystalline, like terrestrial rocks...generalway, with the chemicalcompositionof the meteorite. one classof iron with a nickel content of about...structures. This is the commonest class of iron meteorite of which characteristic examplesare Canyon Diablo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
errors, X87Rb = 1 42 X 10 -11 yr -1) If the Norton County results are joined, we get an age of 4 516 ± 0...Whole rock and enstatlte from Btshopvllle, Cumberland Falls and Mayo Belwa have also been analysed In...the significance of our results uncertain Cumberland Falls and Mayo Belwa probably suffered relatwely...analysed density separates from the type-I Indarch meteorite and found an lsochron indistinguishable from their...also present data for the aubntes Blshopvdle, Cumberland Falls and Mayo Belwa, all three of which might have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highly recrystallized textures; the other, the Cumberland Falls chondrite, has suffered minor metamorphic...alteredcomposition. Udei Station appearsto be a IAB meteorite even though its FeO/(FeO + MgO) ratio is slightly...slightly above the IAB tield. The highly weathered meteorite Tierra Blanca is closely related to IAB but has...phosphate phase. The elemental composition of the Cumberland Falls chondrite is virtually identical to that of...diversity of chondritic portion of Cumberland Falls. Ail except Cumberland materials, and their properties
Book
from the Sky 17 3 Astronomical 27 4 Meteorite Flight, Falls, and Impacts 37 5 The Morphology of Meteorites...Classification of Meteorites 73 7 The Ratio of Falls to Finds of Various Types of Meteorites- Geographical...Possible Primitive Life 213 Forms 5 CONTENTS 18 Meteorite Ages and Isotopic Studies 219 19 The Origin... Illustrations PLATES PAGE The fall of the Sikhot-Alin Meteorite (Academy of Sciences of the USSR) 45 The re-entry...Schwarz) 49 The World's largest single meteorite mass-the Hoba meteorite, South West Africa (American Museum
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Physics University of California Los Angeles, CA 90024/USA Volumes I to 9 in this series appeared under the...provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I...These chapters would have been useful chiefly to meteorite researchers looking for a quick summary of group...quantitative meteorite studies declined during 1970-1973 as a result of the diversion of meteorite researchers'...efforts to the study of lunar samples. The rate of meteorite research activity is now increasing as researchers
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Physics University of California Los Angeles, CA 90024/USA Volumes I to 9 in this series appeared under the...provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I...These chapters would have been useful chiefly to meteorite researchers looking for a quick summary of group...quantitative meteorite studies declined during 1970-1973 as a result of the diversion of meteorite researchers'...efforts to the study of lunar samples. The rate of meteorite research activity is now increasing as researchers
Report (issue)
Specimen No. 635 !> 32.7 g> Arizona State University Meteorite Collection, Terape, Arizona. Murray carbonaceoxis...was made possible by the existence of excellent meteorite collections at Arizona State University, Tempe...Carleton B. Moore, Director of Research, Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University, for the extended...INTRODUCTION ......................... 1 2. THE METEORITE CIASSZS ..................... k Descriptive...Impactites ................... Classification of the Meteorite Breccias ......... Volatile-rich Breccias ...
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Florida Georgia Idaho Illlnois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...'-/ '-/ ,,. Kentucky Geological Survey 307 Mineral Industries Building Lexington, Kentucky, 40506 1 ...northeast part of the Coosa Coal Field, St. Clair County, Alabama, by H. E. Rothrock. 1949. 69 B. 50 Well...Hastings. 1960. 87 'C'.'""9 Summary report on graphite B.68 Part 1 not yet published 76 in Alabama, by...and G. L. Richardson. 91 1940. district, Franklin County, Alabama, by E . F. Burchard and H. D. Pallister
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METEORITE RESEARCH ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY A SERIES OF BOOKS ON THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS... Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., USA C. DE JAGER, G. H. LUDWIG, University of Utrecht...NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA R. LUST, Institut fiir Extraterrestrische Physik...L. I. SEDOV, NEWELL, NASA, Washington, D.C., USA Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR Secretary...Holland VOLUME 12 METEORITE RESEARCH PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM ON METEORITE RESEARCH HELD IN VIENNA
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METEORITICS H . H . Nininger DIRECTOR , AMERICAN METEORITE MUSEUM The University of Denver Press Science...PREFACE INTRODUCTION EARLY MAN AND METEORITES TYPICAL FALLS METEORS THE GREAT METEOR OF MARCH 24 , 1933 SOUND...RELATIONS THE PLAINVIEW METEORITE SHOWER THE KIOWA COUNTY METEORITES METEORITE CRATERS A COMPOSITE SWARM...METEORITES AND THE MOON 280 TEKTITES 297 GREAT METEORITE COLLECTIONS 309 PROPOSED NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF...accumulation of materials and field data , the meteorite - minded layman will continue to play a most im
Report (volume)
4, 5, 8; Museum Paper, nos. 5, 6; County Report, no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...Boletfn de Minas, nos. 5-13. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....Lawrence, Kans. Kentucky Academy of Science:. Transactions, vols. 1, 2. Lexington, Ky. Kentucky Geological...Ordovician; Silurian; Queen Annes County; Kent County; Talbot County. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vols. 5 (no...Geological Survey: (County Reports) Fayette County; Webster County; Nicholas County; Tucker County; Mineral and
Report (volume)
United States. The Carthage meteorite (Tennessee) and the Brenham Township meteorite (Kansas, iron phase) have...Secondary peridotite magma suite _____________ Meteorite: Metal portion_______ ______ _ ______ Olivine...23 Shaw, Colo_________ . 0164 ±. 0007 4. 8 Cumberland Falls, Ky_ . 0034±. 0013 1.0 The results indicate...dikes, in schists, in the Ohio City area, Gunnison County, Colo. The microlite, associated with lepidolite...found in several pegmatites in Georgia. In Lamar County, yellow and green secondary uranium minerals occur
Report (volume)
Bulletin. Topeka, Kans. Kentucky Acad. Sci. Trans. - Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. University...University of Kentucky. Lexington, Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey Bull. Kentucky. Lexington, Ky. Kentucky Geological...University of Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University...University of Kentucky. Lexington, Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey Inf. Circ. - Kentucky Geological Survey Information...Circular. University of Kentucky. Lexington. Ky. Kentucky Geological Kentucky Geol. Survey Rept. lnv.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA s u MMARY. Pertinent general properties of the planets...In spite of numerous historical records of meteorite falls, a century of scientific scepticism about these...in meteorites. White inclusions of the Allende meteorite carry the melilite, spinel, diopside, and perovskite...with 27A1/24Mg in anorthite from the Allende meteorite (Lee et al., I977a , b); Hutcheon et al., I977;...carbonaceous chondrites; however, mixtures of several meteorite types are more plausible than just a single type
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2. Lunar geology. 3. Planets — Surfaces. 4. Meteorite craters. I. Title. QB501.K56 550'.999 75-45357...at Mecca. This stone is widely reputed to be a meteorite and even thought to be the oldest preserved fragment...Jefferson was quoted in reference to a report of a meteorite fall; “. . .It may be very difficult to explain...of modes of meteorite origin, and possible genetic relations between different meteorite types. More... Paris Museum of Natural History, Center for Meteorite Studies of Arizona State University, Harvard and
 
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