Petrography of isotopically-dated clasts in the Kapoeta howardite and petrologic constraints on the evolution of its parent body

Details Petrography of isotopically-dated clasts in the Kapoeta howardite and petrologic constraints on the evolution of its parent body Petrography of isotopically-dated clasts in the Kapoeta howardite and petrologic constraints on the evolution of its parent body

Sep 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976gecoa..40.1115d&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 40, Sept. 1976, p. 1115-1130.

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Basalt, Chemical Composition, Kapoeta Achondrite, Lunar Rocks, Meteoritic Composition, Petrography, Mineralogy, Photomicrographs, Radial Distribution

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Results are presented for petrographic and electron microprobe studies of the isotopically dated A, B, C, and rho basaltic rock fragments separated from the howardite Kapoeta. Other lithic clasts and numerous mineral fragments in thin sections of Kapoeta are investigated in order to outline the range in lithology and chemistry of the source materials from which the Kapoeta meteorite is derived. The data obtained are compared to those from other meteorite and lunar samples, with particular reference to the observational consequences for the evolution of the Kapoeta parent body. A major conclusion is that there is no clearcut evidence for young magmatism on the Kapoeta parent body. The observations preclude the interpretation that the Kapoeta is a simple mixture of eucrites and diogenites. In contrast to the moon, a source of anorthositic rocks does not appear to have been present on the Kapoeta parent body which involved chiefly pyroxene. The FeO-MnO relationships suggest that the source of the materials in the Kapoeta parent planet are fundamentally related.

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