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Jan 1996
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Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 31, p. 146-151 (1996)
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The enstatite achondrite meteorites (aubrites) are ultramafic assemblages with highly variable bulk rare earth element (REE) compositions. An enrichment of REE in a dark clast from the Khor Temiki aubrite led Wolf et al. (1983) to suggest that such dark clasts could be the basaltic (i.e., enstatite-plagioclase) complements to the ultramafic aubrites, with the relatively high REE contents resulting from the presence of plagioclase, which is a common carrier of the REEs. We have studied several dark clasts from the Khor Temiki aubrite and find no evidence for a basaltic character for such material. The microscopic character of the dark clasts is not significantly different from the main portions of Khor Temiki and consists either of highly brecciated material, containing a fine-grained matrix, or of enstatite grains with abundant inclusions. We suggest that the dark clasts are shock-darkened, heterogeneous Khor Temiki material that, by chance, contained variable trace contents of oldhamite (CaS), which has been shown to be a major carrier of REE in aubrites. We find that the REE contents of the clasts range from 0.1 to ˜20x CI. Most have negative Eu anomalies, but one has a small positive anomaly. Extensive searches have failed to identify basaltic material in Khor Temiki and other aubrites. The absence of basaltic material is consistent with, but does not prove, the model of Wilson and Keil (1991). They calculate that, on an asteroidal parent body <- 100 km in radius, a volatile-rich basaltic partial melt erupted with a velocity greater than the escape velocity of the asteroid and, thus, was lost into space ˜4.55 Ga ago.
Keil Klaus
Newsom Horton
Ntaflos Th.
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