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Acknowledgments

This project was supported by a Miami University Honors College Fellowship to Maura Hart, and the Miami University Mineralogy & Petrology Career Development Fund and previous sampling activity tied to an NIJ Forensic Science R&D award (2015-DN-BX-K011) to Dr. Mark Krekeler. We thank the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Sciences for additional support to attend this meeting. We thank Dr. Melodie Fickenscher at the University of Cincinnati or assistance with electron microscopy data collection.