Carbon-rich aggregates in type 3 ordinary chondrites - Characterization, origins, and thermal history

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Mar 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990gecoa..54..831b&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 54, March 1990, p. 831-850.

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Carbon Isotopes, Carbonaceous Materials, Chondrites, Meteoritic Composition, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Geochemistry, Meteorites, Carbon, Enrichment, Aggregates, Ordinary Chondrites, Tem, Electron Microscopy, Laboratory Studies, Samples, Meteorite, Petrology, Composition, Description, Temperature, Accretion, Carbonaceous Material, Origin, Formation, Chondrules, Stony Meteorites, H Chondrites, Clasts, L Chondrites, Ll Chondrites, Chondrites, Procedure, Photomicrographs, Antarctic Meteorites, Alh Meteor

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Carbon-rich aggregates from three type 3.4-3.6 ordinary chondrites and two chondritic clasts have been characterized in detail, using TEM techniques. The aggregates in all the meteorites studied range in size from 5-1000 microns and consist of a fine scale intergrowth of poorly graphitized carbon, amorphous carbon, Fe,Ni metal, and minor chromite. Contrary to previous reports, well-crystallized graphite and magnetite are absent. The association of Fe,Ni metal and carbonaceous material suggests that the original carbonaceous material may have formed by Fischer-Tropsch (FT) type reactions at low temperatures (less than 400 K), possibly in the solar nebula. This carbonaceous material probably consisted of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, kerogen-like material, and other complex organic molecules. The aggregates were subsequently accreted onto the ordinary chondrite parent bodies and underwent planetary thermal processing which resulted in the catalytic graphitization of hydrocarbons, in the presence of Fe,Ni metal, to produce poorly graphitized carbon. None of the meteorites studied experienced temperatures sufficiently high to produce crystalline, ordered graphite. Using the empirical geothermometer of Rietmeijer and Mackinnon (1985), the measured d(002) spacings of poorly graphitized carbon show that graphitization occurred at temperatures between 300 and 450 C. This range of temperatures is significantly lower than the generally quoted metamorphic temperatures for type 3.4-3.6 ordinary chondrites (about 450-500 C).

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