Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Sep 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995metic..30q.502e&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics, vol. 30, no. 5, page 502
Mathematics
Logic
Chondrites, Ordinary, Kamacite, Metal, Meteorites, Allan Hills 76009, Allan Hills 77011, Allan Hills 77231, Allan Hills 77299, Allan Hills 78109, Allan Hills 81024, Allan Hills 81251, Allan Hills 83007, Allende, Dhajala, Elephant Moraine 83213, Elephant Moraine 87778, Macalpine Hills 88174, Richardton, St. Severin, Wisconsin Range 91627, Yamato 74014, Yamato 791088, Yamato 791323, Yamato 791421, Yamato 791434, Yamato 792772, Yamato 82050, Yamato 91539, Structure, Taenite
Scientific paper
Bulk metal and taenite fractions separated by a chemical method [1] from 23 ordinary chondrites were studied by INAA and Mossbauer spectroscopy. The elemental distributions demonstrate that siderophile elements, except Co and possibly As and Mo, are more enriched in taenite than kamacite but with different abundance ratios between them. Apparently, kamacite and taenite are not produced by redox reactions, condensation fractionation and melt-solid fractionation. Instead, kamacite and taenite can only be the equilibrated products by low temperature diffusion following the Fe-Ni phase diagram. Positive correlation of Co and Ni in carbonaceous chondritic metals and the existence of a high Co and low Ni metal phase in some LL chondrites suggest that chondritic kamacite and taenite can not be developed in the nebula. Rather, kamacite and taenite are produced through solid diffusion in the chondritic parent bodies. There is a large difference in the development of kamacite and taenite between the equilibrated and the unequilibrated L chondrites: the taenite phase of the unequilibrated L chondrites is mostly or totally developed into tetrataenite while low-Ni paramagnetic taenite is still present abundantly in the equilibrated L chondrites. The low-Ni paramagnetic taenite is believed to be an unequilibrated phase of either an incompletely transformed phase during fast cooling [2] or a metastable taenite located out of the miscibility gap on the Fe-Ni phase diagram [3]. In either case, the arrangement of the EOCs and the UOCs in the parent body was the same; the EOCs located near the surface of the parent body, with the UOCs being near the center, if they derived from the common parent body. An intrinsic thermal activity in the parent body would produce a temperature gradient decreasing from the center to the surface, whereas an external heating would exhibit the inverse trend. If a "reverse" onion shell structure is invoked, the generally accepted metamorphic temperatures of the equilibrated chondrites must be related with an external heating event rather than the intrinsic activity. The taenite fractions of the unequilibrated L chondrites have been developed into tetrataenite, suggesting that a cooling rate responsible to the development of kamacite and taenite was quite slow. The energy yielding such a slow cooling must have derived from intrinsic source, which heated the parent body to a temperature high enough for the development of kamacite and taenite, but too low to recrystallize silicates. During or after this "metamorphism", an external heating took place on the chondritic parent body, which recrystallized the silicates and modified the structure of kamacite and taenite. This external heating was more violent than the intrinsic one and may have derived from the early activities of the Sun. The highest temperature caused by the external heating was imprinted in the type 6 chondrites which located near the surface of the parent body, being in range of 800 C-950 C [4], and the temperature decreased gradually from the surface to the center of the body. Being different from L chondrites, H chondrites have no apparent difference in taenite components between EOCs and UOCs. If we assume similar thermal histories for both H and L chondrites, H chondritic parent body should be smaller than L's, with even its inner part being influenced to a certain degree during the external heating. References: [1] Kong P. et al. (1995) Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Meteorites, 8, 237-249. [2] Gutlich P. et al. (1978) in Mossbauer Spectroscopy and Transition of Metal Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York. [3] Reuter K. B. et al. (1989) Metall. Trans., 20A, 719-725. [4] Dodd R. T. (1981) in Meteorites: A Petrologic-Chemical Synthesis, Cambridge Univ., London.
Ebihara Mitsuru
Kong Ping
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