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Re: (meteorobs) Iridium from Impacts vs Volcanism



At 09:07 AM 7/25/99 EDT, you wrote:
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>Both asteroid impacts on earth and Volcanoes give off Iridium I understand. 
>Is there anything different about the Iridium from both sources that would 
>enable one to say that it definitely came from an asteroid or a volcanoe? 
>
>Also I understand that the iridium content from an asteroid is suppose to be 
>larger than that from a volcanoe....but how could you tell if iridium came 
>from a small-medium sized asteroid impact and not from an extensive volcanic 
>eruption?
>GeoZay
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With the parameters given, you couldn't.

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