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Show I , Meteorfte of Oreat Age. ireteorltes of Indicated great ago sre conspicuous by their nhsenco from museum collections, nud It Is suggested suggest-ed (but such specimens may disintegrate- and disappear from tho rocks within a relatively short time ufter I fulling. The British museum, however, hns fntcly acquired a slice of somewhat Isss than n pound from n meteoric tno Hint Is believed to represent nn ancient fall. The slice Is from ono vt two similar masses that were found to January, 1005, within a few miles T Dawson, Klondike, and that, from their position deep In the oldest grnv-els grnv-els of the district, are thought to hnvo rested there since the Pliocene uge or iefore. l'rotu his study of th'o original spec-fmens spec-fmens In the museum of tho geological geologi-cal survey at Ottawa, It. A. A. John-' ion has concluded that they are part f a single meteoric shower of Ter Uery time. Newark News. |
