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Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufm.p51a1180l&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #P51A-1180
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3022 Marine Sediments: Processes And Transport, 3662 Meteorite Mineralogy And Petrology (1028, 6240), 6022 Impact Phenomena (5420, 8136), 6240 Meteorites And Tektites (1028, 3662)
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We studied a sample of red clay weighing 1.4 grams, derived from a deep sea core (GPC3) located at Latitude 30 degrees N, Longitude 158 degrees W, provided by Jim Broda at the core lab of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (supported by NSF). The 65 Ma K/T boundary layer was identified by magnetic susceptibility measurements and Ir anomaly which peaked at a down-hole depth of 2055-2056 cm. We dissolved calcium carbonate in the red clay with dilute HCl to facilitate wet sieving for the size fraction greater than 38 microns. This process yielded 0.0l gram of clean grains from which we hand-picked materials under a binocular microscope. We picked out 40 microtektites (glass spherules, now devitrified), 12 olive- green aggregates composed of talc (probably from alteration of olivine), pyroxene, and magnetite, 6 crystals of biotite, a few magnetic oxide minerals and spherules, and 3 green and 1 blue crystals of silicon carbide (SiC). We are studying the SiC by X-rays. Also, there are abundant quartz grains. Six of the grains we picked out show two sets of shock lamellae decorated by a black substance. Some quartz crystals show mosaic structures. One other grain has a foreign particle embedded in it, while another has two penetrating hollow tubes. These two grains might have been impacted upon by high-velocity "bullets". Because the olive-green aggregates we found have both their mineralogy and texture similar to those often observed in chondrules, in addition to the presence of SiC, which is typically associated with carbonaceous chondrites, we recognize that there seems to be a strong implication that the impactor at Chicxulub which caused extinction of dinosaurs might have been a carbonaceous chondrite which sent the distal ejecta to our core site.
Hagstrum Jonathan T.
Leung I. S.
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