Thermoluminescence constraints on the metamorphic, shock, and brecciation history of basaltic meteorites

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Dec 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991gecoa..55.3831b&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 55, Dec. 1991, p. 3831-3844.

Computer Science

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Basalt, Breccia, Metamorphism (Geology), Meteoritic Composition, Shock Waves, Thermoluminescence, Annealing, Classifications, Petrography, Petrology, Temperature Dependence

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The metamorphic, shock, and brecciation history of 18 eucrites, 13 howardites, 6 diogenites, and 15 mesosiderites is investigated via induced thermoluminescence measurements performed on them. The eucrites show a 15-fold range of TL sensitivities, which correlate with petrographic indicators of metamorphic intensity. The temperature of the dominant TL peak observed for basaltic meteorites, and experiments in which four eucrites with diverse petrographic properties were annealed at various temperatures in the laboratory, suggests that the metamorphic equilibration temperatures for most basaltic meteorites were not more than 800 C. Assuming this temperature was typical of conditions during metamorphism, then burial depths for type-above-5 eucrites were greater than 350 m and less than 50 m for type-2 eucrites. Since TL peak temperatures are related to the degree of disorder in the Al, Si chain in feldspar, the present data provide independent evidence for very slow cooling rates for mesosiderites and for the slower cooling rates for some cumulate eucrites relative to equilibrated noncumulate eucrites.

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