[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - slickensides or shock planes?

From: Sergey Vasiliev <vs.petrovich_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 17:36:18 +0200
Message-ID: <CAGiLwjyTURLbo0bGGqhJvPRKc=z1SJhH23TxysEoUJSkmD6mJw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jim,
There is a slickensides there, but very difficult to make a picture of
it because of reflection.
Best regards,
Sergey

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Jim Wooddell
<jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> Those are nice pictures.
> I see the secondary, I do not see slickenside.
>
> I decided to take a look at all the samples for sale on Ebay. There is a
> fellow there selling "slickenside" fragments. Even with those, I say look
> closer.
>
> I imagine you have been very busy! That's a good thing!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jim Wooddell
>
>
>
> On 5/21/2013 8:16 AM, Sergey Vasiliev wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> Look at the two pictures of the same stone.
>>
>> This is a fresh broken side with black shock veins on a very light matrix:
>> - http://sv-meteorites.com/gallery/chelybinsk/02.jpg
>>
>> And this side is secondary crust over the shock vein:
>> - http://sv-meteorites.com/gallery/chelybinsk/01.jpg
>>
>> You can find a lot of interesting things in Chelyabinsk ;-)
>>
>> All the best,
>> Sergey
>>
>
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