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Ringwoodite from
Tissint Martian meteorite, Tata Cercle, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Origin locality:Mars
Classification
Species:Ringwoodite
Formula:(Mg,Fe2+)2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ringwoodite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tissint Martian meteorite, Tata Cercle, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:964438
Long-form Identifier:1:3:964438:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Baziotis, Ioannis P.; Liu, Yang; DeCarli, Paul S.; Jay Melosh, H.; McSween, Harry Y.; Bodnar, Robert J.; Taylor, Lawrence A. (2013) The Tissint Martian meteorite as evidence for the largest impact excavation. Nature Communications, 4 (1). p.1404. doi:10.1038/ncomms2414
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,□)AlSi2O6: Two New High Pressure Minerals from the Tissint Martian Meteorite. 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 1222pp.
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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