Note on the Determination of the Orientation of Section Planes of Meteoritic Irons

P. Terpstra

Professor of Crystallography, University of Groningen

Summary: A simple graphical construction is described for the orientation of two etched faces M and N of a meteoritic iron from the Widmanstetter figures.

Mineralogical Magazine; September 1946 v. 27; no. 194; p. 263-265; DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1946.027.194.07
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