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COLD BAY
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- Subject: COLD BAY
- From: Bernd Pauli <bernd.pauli@lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 18:29:53 +0100
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Jeanne wrote:
> Does anyone have any information about the Cold Bay Alaska Pallasite?
From
> what I understand, it was found in the 1940s lying on the beach at the
high
> tide line. Specifically, what type of Pallasite is it? Also, who has
the
> main mass, and is any available for purchase or trade?
Hello Jeanne,
Cold Bay seems to belong to the EAGLE STATION subgroup of pallasites -
it was found in June 1921:
Fragments totalling 320g were found, G.P. Merrill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.,
1922, 61, (4). Olivine Fa20, P.R. Buseck and J.I. Goldstein, Bull.
Geol.Soc. Amer., 1969, 80, p.2141. Belongs to the Eagle Station
sub-group, analysis of metal, 13.6% Ni, 6.2ppm Ga, 113ppm Ge, 5.8ppm Ir,
E.R.D. Scott, GCA, 1977, 41, p.349.
Specimens: 287g, Washington, U.S. Nat. Mus., BM London, 33.5g.
Regards, Bernd