A model for diagenesis in proto-planetary bodies

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Cosmic Dust, Planetary Evolution, Protoplanets, Solar System, Astronomical Models, Sediments, Silicates, Soils, Water, Planets, Models, Diagenesis, Protoplanets, Formation, Composition, Physics, Chemistry, Water, Ice, Temperature, Thermal Effects, Thickness, Pressure, Parameters, Melting

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In the earliest stage of planetary-body formation, a proto-planet presumably consists of loosely-accumulated solid grains, or clusters of grains, with ice mantles and water-ice grains. Physical and chemical reactions, similar to diagenesis in the terrestrial permafrost, may occur and may be enhanced by an interfacial water layer between solid grains and water-ice at temperatures below the melting point of water-ice. The model proposed here eases the thermal constraints imposed by earlier models of low-temperature aqueous alteration in primitive extraterrestrial materials in which formation of an aqueous medium promoting these alterations required complete melting of the water-ice.

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