Diogenites: Cumulates from Asteroid 4 Vesta: Insights from Orthopyroxene and Spinel Chemistry

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Jan 1996

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Workshop on Evolution of Igneous Asteroids: Focus on Vesta and the HED Meterorites, p. 19

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Achondrites, Lithology, Meteoritic Composition, Pyroxenes, Vesta Asteroid, Spinel, Cosmochemistry, Igneous Rocks, Crystallization, Aluminum, Titanium, Yttrium, Zirconium, Trace Elements

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Cumulate rocks are important planetary lithologies, but they can be difficult to interpret. Important clues to the nature of their parental melts may still be present in the interiors of cumulus phases. However, in some cases, even the cores of the cumulus grains may have been modified by postcrystallization reactions with trapped melt and other cumulus phases. We have previously studied the major-, minor-, and trace-element chemistry of orthopyroxene from a suite of diogenites and concluded that their chemical attributes can best be explained by crystallization from parental melts that were derived from a depleted mantle source that had already experienced eucrite removal. However, we and others have had difficulty explaining the great range in concentration of minor elements (Al, Ti) and trace elements (REE, Y, Zr) if all diogenites were derived from a single magmatic system. Therefore, we have investigated the chemistry of diogenitic spinels to see if they still held clues to the diogenite parental melt compositions. Although spinel is low in abundance in diogenites (<5 vol%) it still may hold clues to the maomatic and metamorphic history of these rocks.

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