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Rabt Sbayta 012 (Mars)
(Paired with Black Beauty)
Martian Polymict Breccia
Western Sahara
Find: 2016
TKW: 11,1 g / OBJ: 0.17 g
Writeup from MB 108:
Rabt Sbayta 012 24°4.2917’N, 14°46.1147’W
Rio de Oro, Western Sahara
Find: 2016
Classification: Martian meteorite (polymict breccia)
History: Found by Zaid Oualguirah and his group in 2016 near Bir Anzarane. Purchased by George Penneff in 2017 from Daoud Wabich in Zagora, Morocco.
Physical characteristics: Three stones, black fusion crust. A slice of the interior reveals a dark-gray surface containing light and dark clasts.
Petrography: (D. Sheikh, FSU) Polymict breccia composed of light and dark lithic clasts and mineral fragments set in a fine-grained matrix. Mineral compositions and textures throughout the specimen are highly variable.Mineral phases identified include orthopyroxene, pigeonite, augite, plagioclase, apatite, and magnetite.
Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene: Fs26.6±5.5Wo2.8±0.6 (Fs21.3-38.2Wo1.9-4.0, N=11, Fe/Mn=43.4±6.5); Pigeonite: Fs34.2±7.9Wo9.0±0.1 (Fs28.6-39.8Wo8.9-9.1, N=2, Fe/Mn=46.2±7.6); Augite: Fs23.9±8.0Wo38.5±3.7 (Fs18.4-33.1Wo36.1-42.8, N=3, Fe/Mn=47.4±9.4); Plagioclase: An38.9±8.1Ab58.8±7.0Or2.3±1.3 (An20.9-46.7Ab51.7-73.1Or1.5-6.0, N=11). Oxygen isotopes (K. Ziegler, UNM): analyses of acid-washed subsamples by laser fluorination gave, respectively, δ17O 4.064, 3.943, 3.904; δ18O 6.525, 6.337, 6.332; Δ17O 0.619, 0.597, 0.561 per mil.
Classification: Martian (Polymict Breccia). Likely paired with NWA 7034 and pairings.
Specimens: 2.37 grams at UCLA; main mass with George Penneff.
State/Prov/County:Rio de Oro
Date:2016
Latitude:24°4.2917'N
Longitude:14°46.1147'W
Mass (g):11.1
Pieces:3
Class:Martian (polymict breccia)
Shock stage:High
Weathering grade:Low
Ferrosilite (mol%):26.6; 34.2; 23.9
Wollastonite (mol%):2.8; 9.0; 38.5
Classifier:D. Sheikh, FSU
Type spec mass (g):2.37
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:George Penneff
Finder:Zaid Oualguirah
Comments:Submitted by Daniel Sheikh
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Creosote, Larrea tridentata, is a southwest shrub. Extremely well adapted to desert life, it is one of the longest lived species on Earth. Its sweet aroma is the perfume of desert rain. It was of diverse medicinal and other uses to native peoples. In this picture, creosotes are at the peak of their bloom in the spring. Dark waxy green leaves in abundance mix with brilliant yellow flowers and fuzzy white seed pods for one of the southwest’s most distinctive floral treats. This view was taken on the bajada of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale, Arizona. The companion pictures show closeups of the flowers, then creosotes in their copper colored mantle for the fall. See the writeup below for more information about this amazing plant.
creosote colors #1 _ springtime gold _ scottsdale, arizona _ (© 2012 megart)
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creosote colors #1 _ springtime gold _ scottsdale, arizona _ (© 2012 megart)
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The Creosote Bush is one of the most important and distinctive plants in the desert Southwest. It is a member of the Zygophyllaceae family of shrubby plants. Its scientific name is Larrea tridentata. The genus Larrea is named for Juan Antonio Hernández y Pérez de Larrea (1730 - 1803), a Spanish priest and important patron of education, economics, and science and technology. It is also sometimes called “chaparral”, especially when referred to as an herbal medicine and “chaparral tea”. However, note that the creosote bush is a low desert plant that only grows below 4,000 feet, having nothing to do with “the chaparral”, those shrubby heath-like plant communities of certain coastal areas such as the California chaparral. The creosote is a hard core hot desert dweller, covering all of the southwest deserts (Sonoran, Chihuahuan, Mojave, and Great Basin), from Texas to California, the Basin states to northern Mexico, and abundant across southern Arizona. It is often the most abundant bush on well drained bajadas (alluvial slopes at the base of mountains), rangeland, and desert flats. The bushes themselves are typically about 3-5 feet high, although they can get larger when more water is available. They grow in large stands, and one of their peculiar features is that they are naturally arranged with a regularity that makes it seem as though they were planted orchard style. Their roots grow deep and wide, and due to their many adaptations for desert survival, they tend to “own” their immediate vicinity. Thus there is often little else other than some small ground cover plants which live between individual bushes. This leads to one of the common Spanish names for this plant, “gobernadora”, the governess, for its ability to govern the growth of nearby plants. These bushes have many “twiggy” branches covered by small green waxy leaves. That waxy or resinous coat on the leaves and twigs, also known as Sonora gum, is an important protective mechanism which gives the plant its other common name, “greasewood”. The whole plant has a sweet resinous odor. It comes from a complex mix of oils and other chemicals that are released from the twigs and leaves when the air is moist. This odor perfumes the entire atmosphere when rain comes to the desert, and for visitors to the southwest who have never witnessed it before, yes, that distinctive aroma of desert rain is indeed the creosote. It is from this sweet aromatic odor that creosote gets its name, since it smells quite similar to the other creosote, that pungent sticky material that comes from heating and distilling wood or coal tar (and which is commonly used as a wood preservative, e.g. on telephone poles and railroad ties). 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As a crown starts to wither and die, new baby bushes will sprout from the ends of the old roots, in a circular pattern around the mother crown. This process can continue for may “generations”, the entire colony having grown from one single seed. Such creosote rings reach up to 70 feet (20 meters) in diameter, and can live for thousands of years. Creosotes are among the longest living and oldest lifeforms on Earth. The oldest age confirmed is for a ring in California’s Mojave Desert which is about 12,000 years old. The rich chemistry of the creosote not surprisingly has made it an important ethnobotanical with a variety of putative medicinal properties. Among Pimas and other native tribes it had diverse curative uses, and it is probably the single most diversely applied botanical in the traditional Mexican materia medica. The leaves and twigs are used. Decocted as a tea, it was used to treat many internal symptoms and ailments as well as making a refreshing beverage. 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