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ANALYSES OF ROCKS, U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
[NO: 228. 
2. HAMBLEN COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 
Mass of nearly half and half stone and iron found about 6 miles 
WSW. of Morristown. Analyzed by L. G. Eakins, and described in 
Bull. 113, p. 61. 
A. The nickel -iron. 
B. The part of the stony portion soluble in hydrochloric acid; 37.63 
per cent, recalculated to 100, with sulphur deducted. 
C. Insoluble part of the stony portion; 62.10 per cent, recalculated 
to 100. 
A petrographic description of this meteorite is given by Merrill in 
Amer. Journ. Sci. , 4th series, vol. 2, p. 141), together with an analysis 
of the feldspar. He finds it to contain in addition to the nickel-iron, 
enstatite, diallage, anorthite, olivine or monticellite, oldhamite or sec- 
ondary gypsum derived from oldhamite, lawrenceite, troilite, and 
schreibersite. 
A. 
B. 
C. 
Fe 
90. 92 
7.71 
.80 
trace 
.19 
.04 
Si0 2 
A1 2 3 
45. 61 
22.62 
50. 67 
Ni 
14.89 
Co 
Cr 9 a 
1.32 
Cu 
P 
FeO 
NiO 
11.73 
1. 06 
10.55 
S 
MnO 
.76 
CaO 
MgO 
K.,0 
14.09 
.",. <>4 
3.61 
17.98 
.03 
Na,0 
.19 
P 2 5 
1 . 25 
S 
100.00 
99.66 
100. 00 
