The LGC were part of a team of geologists who
discovered
the first recorded occurrence of vanadium-rich osbornite on Earth, from two
sites on Skye, northwest Scotland, which are interpreted as part of a
meteoritic ejecta layer. Vanadium-rich osbornite has only previously been
reported in space dust from NASA missions, but on Skye it has been identified
as an unmelted phase.
Drake, S.M., Beard, A.D.,
Jones, A.P., Brown, D.J., Fortes, D., Millar, I.A., Carter, A., Baca, J. B., Downes, H. (2017) Discovery of a
meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted impactor fragments at the base of
Paleocene lavas, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Geology,
https://doi.org/10.1130/G39452.1
