Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in the Allende meteorite - Evidence for a liquid origin

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Dec 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975gecoa..39.1605b&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 39, Dec. 1975, p. 1605-1619. NASA-supported research.

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Aluminum Oxides, Calcium Oxides, Liquid Phases, Meteoritic Composition, Crystallization, Inclusions, Meteoritic Microstructures, Mineralogy, Phase Transformations, Textures

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We have made a detailed examination of the mineralogy, textures, and assemblages of six calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAI) in the Allende meteorite. They can be classified into four types - hibonite-bearing, fassaite- and olivine-bearing, feldspathoid-bearing and fassaite-bearing CAI that are hibonite and olivine free. Examples of each type appear to have crystallized from a liquid rather than by agglomeration of solid nebular condensates. Some lines of evidence for a liquid origin are the presence of spherical and ovoid shapes and rims containing minerals that are more refractory than minerals inside the inclusion. Thermodynamic calculations and comparisons with liquidus phase diagrams indicate that the CAI could have been produced by direct condensation to metastable subcooled liquids that subsequently crystallized or by remelting of an equilibrium high-temperature condensate by impact. The diopside rims in some hibonite-bearing CAI and the paucity of metal in fassaite-olivine-bearing CAI are more consistent with direct condensation of a liquid.

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