Oxidite or “Meteoritic Shale,” Terrestrialization, and Terrestrialite

Abstract

The term oxidite is proposed to replace the synonyms meteoritic shale and iron-shale. Terrestrialization means the terrestrial transformation of a meteorite into something that can no longer be properly regarded as being a meteorite, and terrestrialite signifies the product of that transformation. Both oxidite and meteorodes (defined in n. (3) to the paper) are varieties of terrestrialite.