Introduction: The lunar meteorites Miller Range 05035 (MIL) and Meteorite Hills 01210 (MET) were collected during the 2005 and 2001 ANSMET (Antarctic Meteorite Search) field seasons [1,2]. MET is a 22.8 g regolith breccia composed primarily of basaltic material [3-6]. MIL is a 142.2 g coarse-grained basalt [2]. The bulk composition, mineral assemblage, and texture of MIL is similar to lunar met...

The Black Stone is composed of several dark‐coloured gravels (9.7‐27 mm) held together by a silver frame in the eastern wall Kaaba (Makkah). It contains long prismatic white crystal (0.64‐1.11 and short black (0.33‐0.85 mm length) an equigranular texture. Six one additional pieces are claimed to be Istanbul Edirne, Turkey. stone Edirne quartz (0.45‐6.57 mm, 47.02 %), plagioclase (0.81‐2.97 38.4...

The prograde metamorphism of eclogites is typically obscured by chemical equilibration at peak conditions and by partial requilibration during retrograde metamorphism. Eclogites from the Eastern Blue Ridge of North Carolina retain evidence of their prograde path in the form of inclusions preserved in garnet. These eclogites, from the vicinity of Bakersville, North Carolina, USA are primarily co...

With regard to the differences between soil particle size distribution (PSD) obtained by sieve-sedimentation methods (SSMs), e.g., sieve-pipette method (SPM) and laser diffraction (LDM), usually, clay fraction content in LDM measurements is lower than SSM. Two groups of reasons can be identified for this. Firstly, resulting from features themselves. Secondly, sample preparation (after sampling)...

MIL 03346 is a newly discovered meteorite from Miller Range in Antarctica, which belongs to the nakhlite group of Martian meteorites [1]. It is an unbrecciated, mediumgrained olivinebearing clinopyroxenite with a cumulate texture, similar to the 6 other previously known nakhlites. This is only the 2 nakhlite in Antarctic collections, the other being Yamato 000593 and its pairs. The Meteorite Wo...

Recent advancements in visible to near infrared orbital measurements of the lunar surface have allowed the character and extent of the primary anorthositic crust to be studied at unprecedented spatial and spectral resolutions. Here we assess the lunar primary anorthositic crust in global context using a spectral parameter tool for Moon Mineralogy Mapper data to identify and map Fe-bearing cryst...

The modern sieve method began from Brun’s fundamental work in 1915. This remained the dominant work until 1941 when Ju. V. Linnik expanded on the sieve method. In 1947, A. Selberg advanced the sieve method by using his upper bound sieve. His sieve weights, are fundamentally different from Brun’s thus he brought a structural change into the sieve method. The linear sieve was developed by Rosser ...

Spinel + plagioclase symplectites in pelitic metamorphic rocks have been reported from many localities. We report detail an occurrence of this texture Tenmondai Rock, Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica. This is produced by the following reaction; garnet sillimanite = spinel plagioclase. can be described as two net-transfer reactions; 5Grs Alm 12Als 3Hc 15An, and Prp 3Spl 15An. propose new geo...

We describe an approach to automatic parallelisation of programs written in Sieve C++ (Codeplay’s C++ extension), using the Sieve compiler and runtime system. In Sieve C++, the programmer encloses a performance-critical region of code in a sieve block, thereby instructing the compiler to delay sideeffects until the end of the block. The Sieve system partitions code inside a sieve block into ind...