| Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
| Origin locality: | Mars |
| Classification |
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| Species: | 'Fayalite-Forsterite Series' (not an IMA approved species) |
| Comments: | Olivine ranges from Mg-rich core (max Mg#81) to Fe-rich rims (min Mg#27)[Balta et al., 2015] |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Fayalite-Forsterite Series data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Tissint Martian meteorite, Tata Cercle, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 799109 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:799109:7 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Fayalite-Forsterite Series |
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| 80.5km (50.0 miles) | âIzarzar meteorite, Assaki CaÃŊdat, Taliouine Cercle, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco |
| 82.4km (51.2 miles) | âBensour meteorite, Foum Zguid, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco |
| 95.3km (59.2 miles) | âKheneg LjouÃĒd, Ait Ouabelli CaÃŊdat, Akka Cercle, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco |
| References |
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Ma, C.; Tschauner, O.; Liu, Y.; Beckett, J.R.; Rossman, G.R.; Zuravlev, K.; Prakapenka, V.; Dera, P.; Sinogeikin, S.; Smith, J.; et al. (2014) Discovery of Ahrensite Îģ-Fe2SiO4 and Tissintite (Ca,Na,âĄ)AlSi2O6: Two New High Pressure Minerals from the Tissint Martian Meteorite. 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 1222pp. Balta, J. Brian, Sanborn, Matthew E., Udry, Arya, Wadhwa, Meenakshi, McSween, Harry Y. (2015) Petrology and trace element geochemistry of Tissint, the newest shergottite fall. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50 (1) 63-85 doi:10.1111/maps.12403 Miyahara, Masaaki, Ohtani, Eiji, El Goresy, Ahmed, Ozawa, Shin, Gillet, Philippe (2016) Phase transition processes of olivine in the shocked Martian meteorite Tissint: Clues to origin of ringwoodite-, bridgmanite- and magnesiowÞstite-bearing assemblages. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 259. 18-28 doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2016.08.006 |
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