Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001stin...0169702w&link_type=abstract
Technical Report, California Univ. Los Angeles, CA United States Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Physics
Geophysics
Iron Meteorites, Chromites, Isotopes, Magma, Stony-Iron Meteorites, Melting, Subgroups
Scientific paper
Much of our research involves the chemical characterization of iron meteorites, and discussion of their origins. Wasson (1999a) used an extensive set of data on irons from the magmatic group IIIAB (including planimetric determinations of S in 23 irons) to show that the irons in this group can be modeled as mixtures of equilibrium solid and melt, and that the inferred fraction of trapped melt varies widely, from a few per cent to >80 per cent. The main group pallasites are closely related to the IIIAB irons. Wasson et al. (1999) described massive chromite in the Brenham pallasite and discussed possible formation mechanisms and implications for DCr. Sugiura et al. (2000) reported concentration and isotopic data for N and C in IIIE irons, and also showed that these are resolved from IIIAB irons on Ga-Au and Co-Au diagrams. Wasson and Richardson (2001) analyzed 45 irons from group IVA, also a magmatic group, and demonstrated that important insights are gained by comparisons with the IIIAB data set; the initial Dir, DAu, and DAs values were all substantially lower in IVA than in IIIAB, apparently because the initial S (and P) contents were much (approximately equals 6x) lower in the IVA magma than in the IIIAB magma. Wasson and Kallemeyn (2001) carried out a new, comprehensive evaluation of IAB and closely related irons including those formerly called IIICD; they found that there are five "satellite" subgroups showing compositional trends parallel to those in IAB. The Birch et al. (2001) paper describes Willow Grove, a new volatile-poor, Ni-rich ungrouped iron that is closely related to Tishomingo, and possibly, as suggested for the IAB irons, the product of impact melting.
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