Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 2001
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 1307-1319 (2001)
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Scientific paper
Primary minerals in calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), Al-rich and ferromagnesian chondrules in each chondrite group have delta-18-O values that typically range from -50 to +5%. Neglecting effects due to minor mass fractionations, the oxygen isotopic data for each chondrite group and for micrometeorites define lines on the three-isotope plot with slopes of 1.01 +/- 0.06 and intercepts of -2 +/- 1. This suggests that the same kind of nebular process produced the 16-O variations among chondrules and CAIs in all groups. Chemical and isotopic properties of some CAIs and chondrules strongly suggest that they formed from solar nebula condensates. This is incompatible with the existing two-component model for oxygen isotopes in which chondrules and CAIs were derived from heated and melted 16-O-rich presolar dust that exchanged oxygen with 16-O-poor nebular gas. Some FUN CAIs (inclusions with isotope anomalies due to fractionation and unknown nuclear effects) have chemical and isotopic compositions indicating they are evaporative residues of presolar material, which is incompatible with 16-O fractionation during mass-independent gas phase reactions in the solar nebula. There is only one plausible reason why solar nebula condensates and evaporative residues of presolar materials are both enriched in 16-O. Condensation must have occurred in a nebular region where the oxygen was largely derived from evaporated 16-O-rich dust. A simple model suggests that dust was enriched (or gas was depleted) relative to cosmic proportions by factors of ~10 to >50 prior to condensation for most CAIs and factors of 1-5 for chondrule precursor material. We infer that dust-gas fractionation prior to evaporation and condensation was more important in establishing the oxygen isotopic composition of CAIs and chondrules than any subsequent exchange with nebular gases. Dust-gas fractionation may have occurred near the inner edge of the disk where nebular gases accreted into the protosun and Shu and colleagues suggest that CAIs formed.
Krot Alexander N.
Scott Edward R. D.
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