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Definition of Pallasite
1. Noun. A meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron.
Definition of Pallasite
1. Noun. (geology) A stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pallasite
Literary usage of Pallasite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1903)
"From the Admire pallasite, described by the present writer in the Proceedings of
the US National Museum for 1902, it differs in that the silicate (in this ..."
2. Catalogue of the Ward Coonley Collection of Meteorites by Henry Augustus Ward (1904)
"Geol. Survey of New South Wales, Vol. 7, Part 3, pp. 217-219 132 132 MOUNT
VERNON—pallasite. Krasnojarsk Group Pk Mount Vernon, Christian County, Kentucky, ..."
3. Meteorites: Their Structure, Composition, and Terrestrial Relations by Oliver Cummings Farrington (1915)
"(Pi). Olivine crystals fissured and compressed. 50. pallasite, Bitburg group.
(Pb). Olivine crystals in fine, brecciated trias. ..."
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