Osmium isotopes in Ivory Coast tektites: Confirmation of a meteoritic component and rhenium depletion

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Mass Spectroscopy, Meteorite Collisions, Meteoritic Composition, Osmium Isotopes, Rhenium, Tektites, Abundance, Cote D'Ivoire, Depletion, Earth Crust, Fractionation, Trace Elements

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The sensitive negative thermal ionization mass spectrometry method was used for the measurement of concentrations and isotopic ratios of osmium and rhenium in four Ivory Coast tektites. These tektites have crustal major and trace element composition, as well as large negative epsilonNd(-20) and positive epsilonSr(+260 to +300) which are characteristic for old continental crust. Os concentrations ranging from 0.09 to 0.30 ppb were found, clearly much higher than average crustal values, Os-187/Os-186 ratios of about 1.2-1.7, and low Re-187/Os-186 ratios. These results show unambiguously the existence of a meteoritic component (on the order of 0.06%) in the Ivory Coast tektites. Low Re abundances are the result of fractionation of Re during the impact.

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