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The unique meteorite crater at Dalgaranga, Western Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. H. Nininger  and
Glenn I. Huss
H. H. Nininger
Affiliation:
American Meteorite Museum, Sedona, Arizona
Glenn I. Huss
Affiliation:
American Meteorite Museum, Sedona, Arizona
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Summary

The first scientific examination of the Dalgaranga crater has revealed specimens exhibiting a variety of structures and compositions hitherto unknown in connexion with any meteorite crater. Excavations have yielded much-weathered specimens and permitted measurements of the form and depth of the original pit. The question of age is considered, and the impacting meteorite is thought to have been largely stony but at least in part a mesosiderite.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 251 , December 1960 , pp. 619 - 639
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1960

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References

page 619 note 1 Min. Mag., 1938, vol. 25, p. 157.

page 621 note 1 The spheres of metal enclosed in the impactite at Henbury and at Wabar are very much smaller ( Spencer, L. J., Min. Mag. 1933, vol, 23, p. 387 Google Scholar).

page 636 note 1 Journ. Geol., Chicago, 1929, vol. 37, no. 50; Out of the Sky (Dover Publ. Inc.,: New York), 1959, p. 116.