Sayh al Uhaymir 094 a new martian meteorite from the Oman desert

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Apr 2003

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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #11492

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The new martian meteorite Sayh al Uhaymir 094 was found in february 2001 during a joint meteorite search campaign of the University of Berne, the Natural History Museum Bern, and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Sultanate of Oman. The martian meteorite is a 223.3 g partially crusted, strongly to very strongly shocked melanocratic olivine-porphyric rock of the shergottite group showing a microgabbroic texture. The rock consists of 52.0 58.2 vol% prismatic pigeonite (En60-68Fs20-27Wo7-9) and augite (En46-49Fs15-16Wo28-31), oxydized olivine (Fo65-69;22.1 31%), completely isotropic interstitial plagioclase glass (maskelynite; 8.6 13.0%), chromite and titanian magnesian chromite (0.9 1.0%), traces of ilmenite (ilm80-86), pyrrhotite (Fe92-100; 0.1 0.2%), merrillite, Ca9Na(Mg,Fe)(PO4)7, (<< 0.1%). Shock melt pockets (4.8 6.7%) consist of green basaltic to basaltic andesite glass that is devitrified into a brown to black product along the boundaries to the primary minerals. The average maximum dimensions of minerals are: olivine (1.5 mm), pyroxene (0.3 mm) and maskelynite (0.3 mm). Melt inclusions in olivine are common and account for 0.1 0.6% of the rock. X-ray tomography revealed that the specimen contains approximately 0.4 vol% of shock-melt associated vesicles, up to 3 mm in size, which show a preferred orientation. Fluidization of the maskelynite, melting and recrystallization of pyroxene, olivine and pyrrhotite indicate shock stage S6. Terrestrial weathering resulted in calcite-veining and minor oxidation of sulfides. The modal composition is similar to some basaltic shergottites, with the exception that neither mesostasis nor titanomagnetite nor apatite are present and that all phases show little zonation. The restricted mineral composition, predominance of chromite among the oxides, and abundance of olivine indicate affinities to the ultramafic shergottites.

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