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Orthopyroxene Subgroup from
Budulan meteorite, Aginsky District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:'Orthopyroxene Subgroup' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:Strongly zone crystals of pyroxene (En70-80); Pyroxene clasts [chadacrysts] found in Poikilitic Plagioclase; Orthopyroxene in granular rock inclusion En72Wo2, Fe/Mn=27.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthopyroxene Subgroup data
Locality Data:Click here to view Budulan meteorite, Aginsky District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:930441
Long-form Identifier:1:3:930441:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Floran, R.J. (1978) Silicate petrography, classification, and origin of the mesosiderites - Review and new observations. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference IX, Proceedings, Vol. 1: 1053-1081.
Prinz, M., Nehru, C. E., Delaney, J. S., Harlow, G. E. & Bedell, R. L. (1980) Modal studies of mesosiderites and related achondrites, including the new mesosiderite ALHA 77219. Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XI: 1055-1071.
Mittlefehldt, D. W., McCoy, T. J., Goodrich, C. A. & Kracher, A. (1998). Non-chondritic meteorites from asteroidal bodies. In: Planetary Materials (Papike, J. J. [Ed.]): Chapter 4, 195 pages. Mineralogical Society of America: Washington, DC, USA.
Lorenz, C., Nazarov, M., Kurat, G. & Brandstaetter, F. (2000) High-Magnesium Lithologies and Dry Fluid Metasomatism in the Budulan Mesosiderite: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXI, pdf#1315. (Mar 2000)
Lorenz, C. A., Nazarov, M. A., Kurat, G. & Kononkova, N. N. (2001) Silicate Inclusions in a Metal Nodule of the Budulan Mesosiderite: Mineralogy and Origin (abstract). Meteoritics & Planetary Science 36 (Suppl.): p. A116. (Sept 2001).
 
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