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Science 19 November 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3699, p. 1027
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3699.1027
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Iron Minerals Formed by a Nuclear Explosion in a Salt Bed

M. W. Nathans 1, D. K. Smith 2, and J. S. Kahn 2

1 Tracerlab, Richmond, California
2 Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Livermore

The nuclear event, Gnome, was carried out in halite in the Salado formation and yielded a varied mineral assemblage. The iron suppor members reacted in the salt melt and formed several iron oxide phases. The magnetite which formed during the fireball stage reached in various ways with the environment to form higher oxides and hydrated oxides.

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