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Jul 1992
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Meteoritics, vol. 27, no. 3, volume 27, page 256
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In order to understand the origin of oxidized components in enstatite chondrites, matrix reduced olivine (RO) (<~60 micrometers in diameter) in Yamato-691 (EH3) chondrite has been examined in detail using EPMA. It commonly shows a lamellar structure, composed of alternation (with the spacing of about 1 micrometer) of "reduced olivine," which is a mixture of forsterite, metallic Fe, and probably unreacted olivine (relict), and sub-grain boundaries (SB) partly filled with decomposition products (Fe-metal, troilite, enstatite, and siliceous melt) due to reduction, strongly suggesting that the reduction of high-FeO olivine took place along SB (Boland and Duba, 1986). The presence of RO with bended SB is also suggestive of plastic deformation of the olivine before reduction. We estimated the rate of reduction of (Mg,Fe)-olivine as a function of temperature, composition of olivine (X(sub)Fe) and PO(sub)2 of reducing gas. We assumed that PO(sub)2 of the reducing gas was buffered by Si-bearing Fe-Ni metal + quartz assemblage. A mean Si- and Ni-contents of kamacite in Y-691 (Si=2.09 wt%; Ni=2.90 wt%) was adopted (El Goresy et al., 1988). To form RO with the SB spacing of 1 micrometer within 10^6-7 yr, which is a typical time-scale of thermal metamorphism at shallow parts of meteorite parent bodies (Wood, 1979), the temperature during reduction must have exceeded 700 K. From these results, the formational history of matrix RO and other coexisting phases in Y-691 could be summarized as follows: (1) High-FeO chondrule olivines crystallized in chondrule melts enriched in oxidized components. (2a) A severe impact process deformed them plastically and generated numerous dislocations (>10^9/cm^2) in them. (2b) Post-shock high-T (>~1100 K) annealing process formed SB in them due to dislocation climb. (3) The olivine grains were then mixed with E-chondritic materials containing at least both Si-bearing Fe- Ni metals and silica. (4) During metamorphism and/or impact heating process (T>~700 K), reduction of the olivine proceeded along SB to precipitate reduction products. (5) After reduction, the ROs were comminuted to grain sizes less than ~60 micrometers. (6) Finally, the fine- grained ROs were assembled with other E-chondritic components (e.g., sulfides) to form Y-691 chondrite at temperatures lower than ~500 degrees C (Nagel, 1991). Boland J.N. and Duba A.G. (1986) Jour. Geophys. Res. 91, 4711- 4722. El Goresy A. et al. (1988) Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Meteorites 13th, 65-101. Nagel H.-J. (1991) Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Heidelberg, 117 pp. Wood J.A. (1979) In Asteroids (ed. T. Gehrels), pp. 849-891. Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona.
El Goresy Ahmed
Matsunami Satoshi
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