File:Main mass of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 11119 meteorite.png
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English: Photograph of the main mass of NWA 11119 that was found in Mauritania in December 2016. The rock has a light-green fusion crust, and the broken interior shows light-green and grey-coloured crystals. It is the first, and oldest, silica-rich (andesitic to dacitic) porphyritic extrusive crustal rock with an Al–Mg age of 4564.8 ± 0.3 Ma |
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Silica-rich volcanism in the early solar system dated at 4.565 Ga. Nature Communications, 9(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05501-0 |
| Author | Poorna Srinivasan, Daniel R Dunlap, Carl B Agee , Meenakshi Wadhwa, Daniel Coleff, Karen Ziegler, Ryan Zeigler, Francis M McCubbin | B. Barrett/Maine Mineral & Gem Museum |
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