Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufm.p21a0526s&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #P21A-0526
Physics
3672 Planetary Mineralogy And Petrology (5410), 3944 Shock Wave Experiments, 5410 Composition, 5420 Impact Phenomena (Includes Cratering), 5460 Physical Properties Of Materials
Scientific paper
Strong shock waves induced by impacts can cause vaporization of rocks and minerals. The products of such process play important roles in planetary differentiation (Yakovlev et al., Geochem. International, 38, 1027, 2000) and in effecting the planetary climate. Many experiments and computer simulations have been performed to simulate the Chicxulub impact at Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (see, for example, Pierazzo et al., J. Geophys. Res., 103, 28607, 1998 and Pope et al., J. Geophys. Res., 102, 21645, 1997). However, the pressure range for incipient and complete vaporization of carbonates and sulfates are not well constrained, especially, for minerals with various initial porosities. Furthermore, evidence for chemical species in the products of vaporized carbonate and sulfate minerals is almost non-existing. In this study, we employed published Hugoniot data for carbonate and sulfate minerals. By using the methods described in Ahrens (J. Appl. Phys., 43, 2443, 1972) and Ahrens and O'Keefe (The Moon, 4, 214, 1972), we calculated the entropy associated with the thermodynamic states produced by hypervelocity impacts at various velocities for carbonate and sulfate minerals with different initial porosities. The results were compared with the entropy of incipient vaporization and complete vaporization of these minerals to determine the degree of vaporization due to impacts. Moreover, these results are utilized to guide our experimental study in speciation reactions in shock-induced vaporization of carbonates and sulfates.
Ahrens Thomas J.
O'Keefe John D.
Shen Andy H.
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