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Saturday, 28 December 2019

Edscottite found in Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite 28DEC2019

 Edscottite found in Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite

Scientists Have Officially Found a Mineral Never Before Seen in Nature
Peter Dockrill, Science Alerts, December 25, 2019

the paper is:

Ma, C. and Rubin, A.E., 2019. Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new
iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich Wedderburn
IAB iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104(9), pp.1351-1355.

Yours,

Paul H.

Metallosphaera sedula eats meteorites (open access paper) 28DEC2019

 Metallosphaera sedula eats meteorites (open access paper) 

Scientists Just Identified an Organism That Thrives on Eating Meteorites Mike Mcrae,
Science Alert, December 5, 2019

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-a-microbe-that-not-only-eats-meteorites-it-can-t-get-enough-of-them


The paper is:

Milojevic, T., Kölbl, D., Ferrière, L., Albu, M., Kish,
A., Flemming, R.L., Koeberl, C., Blazevic, A., Zebec,
Z., Simon, K.M.R. and Schleper, C., 2019. Exploring
the microbial biotransformation of extraterrestrial
material on nanometer scale. Scientific Reports, 9(1), pp.1-11.

Yours,

Paul H.

Tuesday, 24 December 2019

Scanned and Searchable Historic Texas Newspapers Now Online 24DEC2019

 Scanned and Searchable Historic Texas Newspapers Now Online

Hi,

For people, interested in searching for reports of
aerolites, meteorites, and so forth in Texas, a
considerable collection of historic local and regional
newspapers is online as scanned and searchable
digital files in "The Portal to Texas History" at

For example, there are 595 hits for "aerolite" and
1,760 hits for "meteorite."

Yours,

Paul H.

Thursday, 19 December 2019

Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian extinction 19DEC2019

 Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian extinction

Svensen, H., Planke, S., Polozov, A.G., Schmidbauer, N.,
Corfu, F., Podladchikov, Y.Y. and Jamtveit, B., 2009.
Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian
environmental crisis. Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, 277(3-4), pp.490-500.

Some related papers are:

Burgess, S.D., Muirhead, J.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2017.
Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of
the end-Permian mass extinction. Nature
Communications, 8(1), p.164.

Polozov, A.G., Svensen, H.H., Planke, S., Grishina,
S.N., Fristad, K.E. and Jerram, D.A., 2016. The basalt
 pipes of the Tunguska Basin (Siberia, Russia):
High temperature processes and volatile
degassing into the end-Permian atmosphere.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, 441, pp.51-64.

Svensen, H.H., Frolov, S., Akhmanov, G.G., Polozov,
A.G., Jerram, D.A., Shiganova, O.V., Melnikov, N.V.,
Iyer, K. and Planke, S., 2018. Sills and gas generation
in the Siberian Traps. Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and
Engineering Sciences, 376(2130), p.20170080.

Rampino, M.R., Rodriguez, S., Baransky, E. and
Cai, Y., 2017. Global nickel anomaly links
Siberian Traps eruptions and the latest Permian
mass extinction. Scientific reports, 7(1), p.12416.

Yours,

Paul H.