Carbonate compositions in CM and CI chondrites, and implications for aqueous alteration

Details Carbonate compositions in CM and CI chondrites, and implications for aqueous alteration Carbonate compositions in CM and CI chondrites, and implications for aqueous alteration

Jun 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993gecoa..57.2843j&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 57, no. 12, p. 2843-2852.

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Carbonaceous Chondrites, Carbonates, Chemical Composition, Meteoritic Composition, Calcite, Iron, Mineralogy, Petrography, Meteorites, Stony Meteorites, Chondrites, C Chondrites, Ci Chondrites, Carbonate, Composition, Aqueous Alteration, Laboratory Studies, Iron, Samples, Meteorite, Microprobe Methods, Parent Bodies, Minor Elements, Calcites, Dolomites, Magnesites, Calcium, Temperature, Distribution, Manganese, Chemistry, Hypotheses, Procedure, Catalog, Petrography, Mineralogy, Partitioning, Phyllosilicates

Scientific paper

Carbonate minerals in fourteen CM chondrites and two CI chondrites have been analyzed by electron microprobe to provide a better understanding of the aqueous processes that affected carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies. Calcites in CM chondrites and dolomites and magnesites in CI chondrites display the compositions expected of stable phases formed at low temperatures. Dolomites in CM chondrites, identified here for the first time in five members of the group, have small amounts of excess Ca which may reflect metastable growth. The distribution of Fe between dolomite and coexisting serpentine differs in the two chondrite groups. If the distributions reflect an approach to chemical equilibrium, then the difference implies higher alteration temperatures for the CI group than the CM group in agreement with the results of previously published oxygen isotope thermometry and mineral solubility modeling of the alteration process. Dolomite Fe contents are relatively uniform in the two chondrite groups. Dolomite Mn contents, by contrast, vary widely. The variations may reflect transport-controlled coprecipitation of Mn resulting from a heterogeneous distribution of the element in the anhydrous precursor material. If this interpretation is correct, then the altering fluids were essentially immobile white hydration reactions proceeded on the meteorite parent bodies. The near closed-system character of the alteration process, long known from bulk chemical analyses of the meteorites, is a direct consequence of the limited mobility of dissolved species.

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