Achondrite (Eucrite, melt breccia) fragmental, equilibrated basaltic eucrite grains set in a eucritic melt rock.
Beautifully colored eucrute melt breccia from a single stone with weathered fusion-crusted exterior. Cut face shows a breccia of light-gray and white clasts set in a matrix of dark impact melt, some of it vesicular. A few small caliche-filled cracks and veins are present in the outer rind of the stone, however they do not penetrate throughout the mass.
Microprobe examination of a polished mount shows many fragmental plagioclase and pyroxene grains, and a few microgabbro clasts, bounded by melt veins and pools. Some melt zones transition into a cataclastic groundmass of very fine-grained plagioclase and pyroxene. Most pyroxenes possess exsolution lamellae. Accessory troilite, chromite, ilmenite and silica. Calcite and barite weathering products detected.
| NWA (Northwest Africa) 10327 | |
| Class: | Eucrite-melt breccia |
| Purchased: | Early 2015 |
| Mass: | One stone, 3,150 gm |
| Shock: | High |
| Weathering: | Low |
| Fs: | 61.7±0.6, 27.4±0.6 |
| Wo: | 2.5±0.7, 43.1±1.1 |
| Classifier: | C. Agee, UNM |
- SOLD – 159.3 gm slice, 3.4mm thick
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- 52.2 gm slice, 3mm thick
- 9.2 gm slice, 3mm thick
- 8.6 gm slice, 3mm thick
- SOLD – 5.8 gm slice, 3mm thick
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