Ru/Ir ratios at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary - Implications for PGE source and fractionation within the ejecta cloud

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Jul 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993gecoa..57.3149e&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 57, no. 13, p. 3149-3158.

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Chemical Composition, Clays, Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, Geochemistry, Condensation, Ejecta, Iridium, Ruthenium

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Ru and Ir are the least mobile platinum group elements (PGEs) within the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary clay. The Ru/Ir ratio is therefore the most useful PGE interelement parameter for distinguishing terrestrial and extraterrestrial contributions to the boundary clay. The Ru/Ir ratio of European marine K-T sections (1.67 +/- 0.38) is statistically different from that of the North American continental sections (0.76 +/- 0.26). It is unlikely that this difference is due to secondary PGE remobilization, PGE input to the boundary clay during multiple impacts, or volcanic emissions. The global difference in Ru/Ir ratios in the boundary clay may therefore be primary. The positive correlation between distance from the Chicxulub impact structure (Yucatan, Mexico) and Ru/Ir ratio and the more than 1000 C difference in the condensation temperatures of these elements lead us to propose that fractionation of Ru from Ir during condensation from the ejecta cloud may have occurred, resulting in the global difference in Ru/Ir ratios.

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