Sentence examples for of meteoritic origin from inspiring English sources

Nickel iron also can be of meteoritic origin.

Aouelloul Crater, large crater located 28 mi (45 km) southwest of Chinguetti, Mauritania, and thought to be of meteoritic origin.

If the many small, circular lakes nearby are of meteoritic origin, then this group of craters is possibly the largest in the world.

Ungava-Quebec Crater, also called New Quebec Crater, formerly Chubb Crater, geologically young crater of meteoritic origin located in the northwestern part of the Ungava Peninsula, northern Quebec province, Canada.

These craters were attributed in 1933 to meteoritic origin.

Known earlier but not attributed to meteoritic origin until 1938, it is 70 feet (21 m) in diameter and 11 feet deep.

After microscopic observations and chemical analysis a meteoritic origin of these objects was excluded.

For that matter, if we are to explain the emergence of self-replicating entities by catalytic closure of interactions between polypeptides, polynucleotides and the first amphiphilic, lipid-like molecules (Segre's "lipozymes" [ 203]), it appears reasonable to assume the latter were of protometabolic rather than meteoritic origin [ 209].

Surveys show only fragments within the pit, but the 1960 discovery there of coesite and stishovite, which are high-pressure modifications of silica, helped to confirm the crater's meteoritic origin, a position that had been argued for 27 years by Philadelphia mining engineer D.M. Barringer.

Paul Partsch, the curator of the Austro-Hungarian imperial collection of minerals, published the first comprehensive history of the Black Stone in 1857 in which he favoured a meteoritic origin for the Stone.

Data plotted on this suggest that such water is derived from the meteoritic origin.