[meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:08:31 -0400
Message-ID: <1l73m3l208ulid6dp6ppn0ogjnvclj4sr6_at_4ax.com>

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:41:54 +0000, you wrote:

>Playing Devil's advocate for a moment, is there a chance the author is
>fudging the findings? Could the proposed results be replicated by, say,
> firing a shotgun shell full of coarse iron filings at a tusk, like using paper
>from the appropriate era to forge a historical document?

I'm wondering if there might have been some sort of attempt to clean the
fossils, such as listed under "MECHANICAL PREPARATION" here

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/resources/prep.htm

that could have damaged the fossils and left behind bits of iron.
Received on Thu 13 Dec 2007 04:08:31 PM PST