INVESTIGADORES
VARELA Maria Eugenia
artículos
Título:
San Juan?, a new mass of the Campo del Cielo meteorite shower.
Autor/es:
SAAVEDRA M.; MARIA EUGENIA VARELA; CAMPBELL A.; TOPA D,
Revista:
Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina
Editorial:
Asociacion Geologica Argentina
Referencias:
Año: 2021
ISSN:
0004-4822
Resumen:
Petrographic and chemical (major, minor and trace element) studies ofsilicate inclusions and metal from the San Juan A and B samples revealed that they are newmasses belonging to the Campo del Cielo IAB iron meteorite shower. These masses musthave being transported from the large strewn field in the Chaco and Santiago del EsteroProvinces to the surroundings of San Juan city, where they have being recover in the year2000. The sizes of the two masses of San Juan, collected 770 km SW from Santiago delEstero, is in agreement with the previously suggested anthropic hypothesis for the transportof Campo del Cielo.
