Meteorites and Tektites Cochise College
Meteorites and Tektites Geology Home Page
Meteorites
and Impacts
Roger Weller,
geology instructor
(wellerr@cochise.edu)
3/27/18
chondrite meteorite with fusion crust
meteorites, tektites,
and strange glasses
number of photos: 182
nickel-iron meteorites
from Odessa, Texas:
1
2
from Canyon Diablo, Arizona:
1
2
oxidized crust from Canyon Diablo:
1
2
3
oxidized iron droplets from Canyon Diablo:
1
from Fallon, Nevada:
1
2
3
from Argentina:
1
2
3
etched, showing Widmanstatten pattern:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
cut sphere showing Widmanstatten pattern:
1
weathered octahedrite from China:
1
2
3
4
knife blades made from meteorites:
1
2
irons mounted for display:
1
2
3
Goose Lake medium octahedrite:
1
misc. Fe-Ni meteorites:
1
2
3
4
aerodynamically streamlined:
1*
stony-iron meteorites
pallasites:
1
2
3
4
5
Brehham pallasite:
1
Morristown mesosiderite:
1
stony meteorites
Huckitta ghost pallasites:
1
2
Selma olivine
bronzite:
1
Gold Basin, Arizona:
1
2
Mt. Tazerail, Australia:
1
Kapoeta achondrite:
1
Norton County enstatite achondrite:
1
Lafayette diopside olivine achondrite:
1
Orgueil carbonaceous achondrite:
1
Johnstown hypersthene achondrite:
1
Moore County eucrite:
1
2
Juvinas eucrite:
1
Sioux County eucrites:
1
2
3
4
Stannern eucrite:
1
2
chondrites
chondrites from northern Africa:
1
2
3
Holbrook chondrite chondrules:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Holbrook chondrite graphical analysis:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Murray carbonaceous chondrite:
1
2
3
Homestead hypersthene chondrite:
1
misc. chondrites:
1
2
3
4
5
tektites
moldavites:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Australasian tektites:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
tektites from China:
1
2
3
tektite look-alikes (obsidian):
1
2
3
4
5
6
broken tektite:
1
Libyan desert glass:
1
2
impactites
suevite:
1a
1b
1c
2a
2b
2c
3
4a
4b
high pressure impact produced minerals
coesite:
1
strange glasses
fulgurites:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
trinitites:
1
2
manmade glass slag:
1
2
3
regular slag:
1
2
3
Photos are copyright free for non-commercial
educational uses.
Just credit photos to R.Weller/Cochise College.
copyright 2018-R.Weller
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