Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Nov 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000m%26ps...35.1321b&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1321-1331 (2000).
Mathematics
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Scientific paper
The polymict eucrite Macibini is a fragmental breccia predominantly composed of eucritic materials with minor proportions (maximum 2 vol%) of diogenitic material. Hence, it is intermediate between the Y74159-type polymict eucrites, which contain negligible amounts of magnesian orthopyroxene, and the howardites. The present study provides mineralogical and bulk compositional data for the meteorite breccia and for six clasts. These clasts include both volcanic/igneous rocks and a variety of impact-generated rocks. A broad range of degrees of post-crystallization metamorphism affected these materials before the final aggregation of the breccia. Clast A is a fragment of unequilibrated eucrite with subophitic texture. The edges of the zoned pyroxenes in this clast are composed of a host of Fe-rich augite containing vermicules (blebs) and lamellae composed of a mixture of Fe-rich olivine and silica. Similar features occur as fragments in lunar breccias and are attributed by some workers to the breakdown of pyroxferroite, an Fe-rich pyroxenoid. However, textures and compositions of these augite-olivine-silica intergrowths in clast A suggest that, in this case, they are the result of decomposition in a series of steps of Fe-rich subcalcic augite. Among the fragments of impact-generated material in Macibini is clast 2, an earlier-formed clastic breccia that was lithified before being broken apart and included in the meteorite breccia. Clast 3 is an impact melt breccia that is composed of rock and mineral fragments in a devitrified groundmass. Clast C is also an impact melt breccia that has a coarser-grained, hornfelsic groundmass that resulted from extensive metamorphism after formation.
Buchanan Paul C.
Koeberl Christian
Lindstrom David J.
Mittlefehldt Dave W.
Reimold Wolf Uwe
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