Fe-Mn systematics of type IIA chondrules in unequilibrated CO, CR, and ordinary chondrites

Details Fe-Mn systematics of type IIA chondrules in unequilibrated CO, CR, and ordinary chondrites Fe-Mn systematics of type IIA chondrules in unequilibrated CO, CR, and ordinary chondrites

Apr 2011

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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Volume 46, Issue 4, pp. 513-533.

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We have examined Fe/Mn systematics of 34 type IIA chondrules in eight highly unequilibrated CO, CR, and ordinary chondrites using new data from this study and prior studies from our laboratory. Olivine grains from type IIA chondrules in CO chondrites and unequilibrated ordinary chondrites (UOC) have significantly different Fe/Mn ratios, with mean molar Fe/Mn = 99 and 44, respectively. Olivine analyses from both these chondrite groups show well-defined trends in Mn versus Fe (afu) and molar Fe/Mn versus Fe/Mg diagrams. In general, type IIA chondrules in CR chondrites have properties intermediate between those in UOC and CO chondrites. In most UOC and CR type IIA chondrules, the Fe/Mn ratio of olivine decreases during crystallization, whereas in CO chondrites the Fe/Mn ratio does not appear to change. It is difficult to interpret the observed Fe/Mn trends in terms of differing moderately volatile element depletions inherited from precursor materials. Instead, we suggest that significant differences in the abundances of silicates and sulfides ± metals in the precursor material, as well as open-system behavior during chondrule formation, were responsible for establishing the different Fe/Mn trends. Using Fe-Mn-Mg systematics, we are able to identify relict grains in type IIA chondrules, which could be derived from previous generations of chondrules, including chondrules from other chondrite groups, and possibly chondritic reservoirs that have not been sampled previously.

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