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Deposits Mag

Fossils, geology and minerals. The highly acclaimed international earth science magazine with over 700 articles and book reviews.

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Mysteries of time: A quest for the age of the Earth
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Mysteries of time: A quest for the age of the Earth

03/04/2019

David Alexander Gardiner (UK) The question of the age of the Earth and its former inhabitants is one of great interest to us all. Most are aware that the Earth is understood today to be approximately 4.6 billion years in age, but what is the story of the momentous quest … Read More

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Book review: Collecting spacerocks: a guide to Meteorites, Tektites and Impactites, by David Bryant
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Book review: Collecting spacerocks: a guide to Meteorites, Tektites and Impactites, by David Bryant

04/12/2018

Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is a nice little guide for the non-specialist collector of all things that go bump from above (and the effects they have on the rocks they impact). As is clear from the title, the book covers three wide categories: meteorites, tektites and impactites. Broadly speaking, a … Read More

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Pallasites: The meteorite jewels in the crown
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Pallasites: The meteorite jewels in the crown

24/04/2018

David Bryant (UK) Perhaps unsurprisingly (as a professional dealer in space rocks), I find all meteorites equally fascinating and, in their own way, aesthetically appealing. However, I have to admit, the meteorites known as the Pallasites, with their beautiful structure of olivine fragments suspended in a nickel-iron matrix, are probably … Read More

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