A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Native iron |
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| Description | This sample of native iron is about 5 cm across. Calling it “native iron” is probably a misnomer because natural iron is so unstable at the Earth's surface that it rarely forms there. Most sample of “native” iron come from meteorites that have impacted the Earth's surface. A few rare terrestrial gabbros and sulfide deposits do contain elemental iron-nickel deposits. |
| Location | Greenland. Disco Island. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-26. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #37. |
| Key words | Native iron, Greenland |
| Tech details | 759 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 898 |
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