Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978stin...7834021b&link_type=abstract
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Computer Science
Ablation, Interplanetary Dust, Meteorites, Ocean Bottom, Sediments, Spherules, Chemical Composition, Meteoritic Composition, Mineralogy, Pacific Ocean
Scientific paper
Spheres from mid-Pacific abyssal clays (0 to 500,000 yrs old), formed from particles that completely melted and subsequently recrystallized as they separated from their meteoroid bodies, or containing relict grains of parent meteoroids that did not experience any melting were analyzed. The spheres were readily divided into three groups using their dominant mineralogy. The Fe-rich spheres were produced during ablation of Fe and metal-rich silicate meteoroids. The glassy spheres are considerably more Fe-rich than the silicate spheres. They consist of magnetite and an Fe glass which is relatively low in Si. Bulk compositions and relict grains are useful for determining the parent meteoroid types for the silicate spheres. Bulk analyses of recrystallized spheres show that nonvolatile elemental abundances are similar to chondrite abundances. Analysis of relict grains identified high temperature minerals associated with a fine-grained, low temperature, volatile-rich matrix. The obvious candidates for parent meteoroids of this type of silicate sphere is a carbonaceous chondrite.
Blanchard M. B.
Brownlee Don E.
Bunch Ted E.
Hodge Paul W.
Kyte Frank T.
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