Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Apr 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012gecoa..83..159k&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 83, p. 159-178.
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
In situ oxygen-isotope measurements of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) from the metal-rich carbonaceous chondrites Isheyevo (CH/CB-like), Acfer 214 paired with Acfer 182 (CH), QUE 94411 paired with QUE 94627 (CBb), and Hammadah al Hamra 237 (CBb) revealed the presence of a common population of igneous, isotopically uniform, 16O-depleted inclusions: Δ17O (average ± 2 standard deviations) = -7 ± 4‰, -6 ± 5‰, and -8 ± 3‰, respectively. All CAIs from CBs and a significant fraction of those from CHs and Isheyevo are 16O-depleted. Most of the 16O-depleted CAIs consist of Ti-poor Al-diopside, spinel, melilite, and forsterite and surrounded by a single- and double-layered rim of forsterite ± diopside. The 16O-depleted CAIs composed of hibonite, grossite, melilite, and spinel, and surrounded by the multilayered melilite + diopside ± forsterite rims are less common. Some of the 16O-depleted refractory igneous inclusions composed of Al-diopside, forsterite, and ±spinel have chondrule-like textures (skeletal or barred). They are mineralogically most similar to Al-diopside-rich chondrules found in metal-rich carbonaceous chondrites and composed of Al-diopside, forsterite, Al-rich low-Ca pyroxene, ±glassy mesostasis, and ±spinel, suggesting there is a continuum between these objects.We suggest that (i) most of the isotopically uniform and 16O-depleted CAIs resulted from remelting of pre-existing, possibly 16O-rich refractory inclusions. The remelting may have occurred during formation of the magnesian, non-porphyritic (cryptocrystalline and skeletal) chondrules in CHs, CBs, and Isheyevo either by an unspecified, late, single-stage, highly-energetic event or in an impact-generated plume previously hypothesized for their origin; both mechanisms probably occurred in the solar nebula (i.e., in the presence of the nebula gas). The forsterite ± pyroxene rims around 16O-depleted CAIs may have resulted from evaporation-recondensation of silicon and magnesium during this event. Some of the Al-diopside-rich CAIs may have formed by evaporation of the Al-rich chondrule melts. (ii) In addition to these components, the CHs and Isheyevo contain a high abundance of chondrules and refractory inclusions formed by the commonly inferred nebular processes - evaporation, condensation, and incomplete melting of dust aggregates during multiple transient heating events. These include 16O-rich CAIs, amoeboid olivine aggregates, and ferromagnesian and aluminum-rich chondrules with porphyritic textures. Such components are also present in CB chondrites, but they are exceptionally rare. These observations indicate that there are multiple generations of CAIs in metal-rich carbonaceous chondrites. (iii) Because the isotopically uniform, 16O-depleted, igneous CAIs and the magnesian cryptocrystalline and skeletal olivine-pyroxene chondrules are found almost exclusively in metal-rich carbonaceous chondrites, the hypothesized impact-plume mechanism of chondrule formation and recycling of CAIs are not common processes.
Krot Alexander N.
Nagashima Kazuhide
Petaev Michail I.
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