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This sentence seems like an enormous problem.
"In the late 1840s, when large boulders of iron were discovered near the Disko Bay area by European explorers, it was assumed that the metal was of meteoric origin, since both contain significant amounts of nickel and both had Widmanstatten structures. The local Inuit were known to have made iron tools from the Cape York meteorite. In 1871, several large blocks were brought to Europe for further study. A 25 ton block now rests outside of the Riksmuseum in Stockholm, a 6.6 ton block outside the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, and a 3 ton block can be found in Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki."
Everything after "The local Inuit were known to..." does not have anything to do with Telluric iron. The Cape York Meteorite is not Telluric iron. They are relevant, because the Inuit used flakes from the Cape York meteorites for tools, just as they apparently have used Telluric iron for tools, but the Cape York Meteorite is /not/ Telluric iron.
I'll go ahead and delete it, so it just states: "In the late 1840s, when large boulders of iron were discovered near the Disko Bay area by European explorers, it was assumed that the metal was of meteoric origin, since both contain significant amounts of nickel and both had Widmanstatten structures."
Looking at the biography page of Nordenskiöld, it looks like his first trip to Greenland was in 1870, not the 1840s. He was born in 1832 so would have been quite young even at the end of the 1840s. Belltower ( talk) 13:22, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
This phrase, in the 'Type 1' section, is problematic:
... by the ancient Inuit people, (the local inhabitants of Greenland), and ...
Although the Inuits live there now, they only arrived about 1200ce or 1300ce. Not "ancient". I'm not sure what years they're talking about, but before the Inuits was the Dorset_culture starting around 500bce. See the Inuit and Dorset articles for more detail. OsamaBinLogin ( talk) 03:23, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
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This sentence seems like an enormous problem.
"In the late 1840s, when large boulders of iron were discovered near the Disko Bay area by European explorers, it was assumed that the metal was of meteoric origin, since both contain significant amounts of nickel and both had Widmanstatten structures. The local Inuit were known to have made iron tools from the Cape York meteorite. In 1871, several large blocks were brought to Europe for further study. A 25 ton block now rests outside of the Riksmuseum in Stockholm, a 6.6 ton block outside the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, and a 3 ton block can be found in Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki."
Everything after "The local Inuit were known to..." does not have anything to do with Telluric iron. The Cape York Meteorite is not Telluric iron. They are relevant, because the Inuit used flakes from the Cape York meteorites for tools, just as they apparently have used Telluric iron for tools, but the Cape York Meteorite is /not/ Telluric iron.
I'll go ahead and delete it, so it just states: "In the late 1840s, when large boulders of iron were discovered near the Disko Bay area by European explorers, it was assumed that the metal was of meteoric origin, since both contain significant amounts of nickel and both had Widmanstatten structures."
Looking at the biography page of Nordenskiöld, it looks like his first trip to Greenland was in 1870, not the 1840s. He was born in 1832 so would have been quite young even at the end of the 1840s. Belltower ( talk) 13:22, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
This phrase, in the 'Type 1' section, is problematic:
... by the ancient Inuit people, (the local inhabitants of Greenland), and ...
Although the Inuits live there now, they only arrived about 1200ce or 1300ce. Not "ancient". I'm not sure what years they're talking about, but before the Inuits was the Dorset_culture starting around 500bce. See the Inuit and Dorset articles for more detail. OsamaBinLogin ( talk) 03:23, 10 August 2019 (UTC)