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Scientific paper
Jul 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994metic..29q.518p&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 29, no. 4, p. 518
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Lithology, Metamorphism (Geology), Meteoritic Composition, Shock Heating, Chemical Analysis, Inclusions, Spinel, Temperature Effects, Troilite
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The Chaunskij meteorite, found in 1985, recently has been found to be the most highly metamorphosed, shock-modified, and metal-rich mesosiderite. It contains approximately 10 vol% mono- and polymineralic troilite-phosphate-silicate inclusions, micrometers to centimeters in size. Two dominant silicate lithologies have been found in the inclusions. The primary 'igneous' lithology, making up the largest inclusion studied, is generally a microophitic fine-grained aggregate of pyroxene, plagioclase, and minor silica, with scattered coarser-grained granoblastic spots enriched in silica and troilite. The secondary 'metamorphic' lithology occurs as separate small inclusions and as larger areas in intimate contact with the 'igneous' lithology, separated by highly irregular boundaries from each other, in the largest inclusion. In small inclusions the metamorphic lithology consists of a fine-grained hornfelsic to granoblastic aggregate of cordierite, orthopyroxene, quartz, and whitlockite with variable amounts of opaque minerals. In the largest inclusion the metamorphic lithology is a generally granoblastic to poikiloblastic aggregate of cordierite and quartz with minor amounts of other minerals. The Opx-Chr mineral thermometer and the Cord-Sp barometer have been applied to estimate the conditions of Chaunskij metamorphism. The data for 16 Opx-Chr pairs from different inclusions and lithologies correspond to a temperature of 590 +/- 30 C. The data for 9 Cord-Chr pairs from different inclusions correspond to a pressure of 6.0 +/- 0.2 kbar. While the composition of spinel in Chaunskij much richer in Cr than were the spinels used to calibrate Cord-Sp barometer the estimated pressure is consistent with the occurrence in the igneous lithology of two small pyroxene grains enriched in the CaAl2SiO6 molecule, coexisting with quartz and plagioclase. This mineral assemblage is unstable below approximately 5 kbar at 600 C.
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