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Jan 2000
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 65-74 (2000).
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All solid solar system bodies have been affected by impact to varying degrees, and, thus, magnetic records in these bodies may have been modified by shock events. Shock events may have overprinted all primordial magnetic records in meteorites. Shock metamorphism stages ranging from very little to extreme, when melting takes place, have been identified in meteorites. We are examining the creation and destruction of magnetic remanence associated with shock. In this paper, we develop a preliminary framework for understanding the magnetic properties of fine-grained Fe particles (20-110 nm), which carry most of the remanent magnetization in lunar and by extension the kamacite phase in meteorite samples. Initial experiments on shock effects due to a first-order shock induced crystallographic transformation are described. The first characterization of pre- and post-shock magnetic properties for sized iron particles and the first characterization of the transformation remanent magnetization (TMRM) associated with the face-centered-cubic (fcc) to body-centered-cubic (bcc) transformation in fine particle iron spheres are described. This is equivalent to the 13 GPa transitions in bcc iron. We show that the TMRM is in the same direction as the ambient magnetic field present during the shock, but is deflected from the field direction by 30-45(, and that the remanence intensity is 1-2 orders of magnitude less than expected for thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) acquired during cooling through the Curie temperature. Isothermal remanence acquisition curves (RA) reveal the increasing magnetic hardness due to shock. Magnetic hysteresis loops are used to characterize the particle size and the shock induced magnetic anisotropy. Thermal demagnetization experiments describe the probable presence of particle size effects and the effects associated with recovery-recrystallization due to the annealing that takes place during the thermomagnetic experiment. These observations have implications for paleofield determinations and the recognition of thermal unblocking. A TMRM mechanism could produce a shock overprint in a meteorite and might impart a significant directional feature in an asteroid magnetic signature.
Dickinson Tamara L.
Wasilewski Peter
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