Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Mar 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24..737j&link_type=abstract
In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: G-M p 737-738 (SEE N94-16173 03-91)
Mathematics
Logic
Achondrites, Basalt, Chondrites, Melts (Crystal Growth), Olivine, Petrography, Petrology, Crystallization, Depletion, Low Temperature, Textures
Scientific paper
The achondrite LEW87051 is a porphyritic basalt consisting of large subhedral to euhedral zoned olivines in a finer-grained groundmass. The texture of this groundmass looks remarkably like a quenched melt. However, although the rock is clearly igneous, its exact origins and history are under dispute. From petrographic observations, Prinz felt that the large olivines were xenocrysts and that the zoning reflected interaction with an unrelated, CAI-enriched melt. McKay et al. was able to model the olivines as phenocrysts, whose zoning was the result of a parent melt that changed in composition as material crystallized, e.g., fractional crystallization in a closed system, and calculated a parent melt composition. Jurewicz and McKay compared the calculated parent melt composition with actual partial melts from CV and CM chondrites. They showed that the calculated melt was substantially different from equilibrium melts of these chondrites; however, the LEW87051 groundmass composition was similar to some of the low temperature partial melts, although slightly enriched in AN (or depleted in OL) components. This study presents the results of an independent petrologic look at other olivines in LEW87051 and the preliminary results of a quantitative model for the major zoning in these olivines as diffusive-exchange with an olivine-saturated, low temperature angritic melt.
Jurewicz Amy J. G.
McKay Gordon A.
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