Ion-Microprobe Investigation of Feldspar and Pyroxene from Cumulate Eucrites

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Diogenites, Eucrites: Cumulate, Feldspar, Ion Probe, Pyroxene

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The howardites, eucrites and diogenites are thought to be genetically related meteorites based on their geochemical and petrographic attributes and thought to have formed on the same parent body, 4 Vesta, by magmatic activity and impact-brecciation events. In our attempt to relate the cumulate eucrites to the diogenites and noncumulate (main series) eucrites, we have examined the trace-element systematics of plagioclase grains that co-exist with inverted pigeonites of the cumulate eucrites by SIMS. Trace-element abundances of plagioclase show limited variability within grains from each cumulate, but are variable among the four cumulates analyzed: Moama, Moore County, Serra de Mage and Binda. The average chondrite-normalized REE abundances of the plagioclase grains of the cumulates range from 1.7-10.3x CI in the LREE and from 0.09-0.26x CI in the HREE with positive Eu anomalies ranging from approximately 18-23x CI. The uncertainties of the abundances of the HREE are greater than those of the LREE because the abundances of the HREE are very close to their detection limits.

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