Mineralogy, petrology, and trace element geochemistry of the Johnstown meteorite - A brecciated orthopyroxenite with siderophile and REE-rich components

Details Mineralogy, petrology, and trace element geochemistry of the Johnstown meteorite - A brecciated orthopyroxenite with siderophile and REE-rich components Mineralogy, petrology, and trace element geochemistry of the Johnstown meteorite - A brecciated orthopyroxenite with siderophile and REE-rich components

Dec 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981gecoa..45.2385f&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 45, Dec. 1981, p. 2385-2391.

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Breccia, Geochemistry, Meteoritic Composition, Mineralogy, Petrology, Trace Elements, Abundance, Contamination, Feldspars, Olivine, Recrystallization, Meteorites, Mineralogy, Petrology, Trace Elements, Geochemistry, Matrix, Johnstown, Samples, Meteorite, Laboratory Studies, Composition, Breccias, Abundance, Microprobe Methods, Clasts, Recrystallization, Comparisons, Diogenites, Achondrites, Stony Meteorites

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The compositional and petrologic characteristics of the Johnstown meteorite show it to contain uncontaminated and unbrecciated orthopyroxenite clasts of cumulative origin that (1) must have undergone subsolidus recrystalization, (2) are parental to the brecciated matrix, and (3) show no evidence of a xenolithic, meteoritic contribution to the matrix except for contamination by the projectile which crushed it on impact. The trapped liquid was not introduced in the impact process. The variability of such trace elements as the light rare earth elements, and the presence of plagioclase and olivine in only one of the thin sections studied, demonstrates the heterogeneity of coarse-grained diogenites on a millimeter scale and the difficulty of obtaining representative samples of such meteorites. The data presented indicate that this meteorite is a monominct breccia.

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