Mulga (west) meteorite, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 1' South , 126° 22' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.01694,126.36667 |
GeoHash: | G#: qf9v5x96s |
Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
Meteorite Class: | C5/6-ung chondrite meteorite |
Meteoritical Society Class: | C5/6-ung |
Metbull: | View entry in Meteoritical Bulletin Database |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Found by Mr. W. H. Cleverly of the Kalgoorlie School of Mines, within the strewnfields of the Mulga (north) and Mulga (south) meteorites.
Source: W. H. Cleverly. 1972. Mulga (north) chondritic meteorite shower, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 55, 115-128.
mass: 169.2g
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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 932237 | residual sediments and calcrete 72999 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Residual (eluvial) loam, clay, silt, sand with sheet and nodular kankar Comments: regolith; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Regolith Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
Miocene - Oligocene 5.333 - 33.9 Ma ID: 3187517 | Cenozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Cenozoic (5.333 - 33.9 Ma) Comments: Eucla Basin Lithology: Sandstone,limestone Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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