The nature of dark-etching rims in meteoritic taenite

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Oct 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973gecoa..37.2283s&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 37, Issue 10, pp.2283-2284

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Taenite fields when etched develop a cloudy brown rim with approximate compositional limits of 25 and 40 per cent Ni. In iron meteorites this cloudy zone is only a few microns wide, with a sharp, high-Ni edge about 1 m from the kamaciteinterface and a diffuse edge several microns from the central plessite. It is always present in irons unless the meteorite has been cosmically or terrestrially reheated. X-Ray and electron diffraction of grains scratched from exceptionally large areas of cloudy taenite in the mesosiderite Estherville show that this etching zone contains a fine exsolution of kamacite. Electron microscopy reveals a cellular structure with kamacite walls surrounding taenite volumes about 1000 Å in diameter; about one-third of the total volume is kamacite. Electron diffraction from a thin foil of Tazewell indicates that for several microns the cloudy border consists of a single crystal of kamacite interpenetrating a single crystal of taenite. Detailed electron-probe investigations of taenite in Estherville show that there is a step in the M-shaped Ni profile at the sharp, high-Ni edge of the cloudy region, the Ni dropping suddenly from approximately 45 to 42 per cent. It is proposed that exsolution in the cloudy region effectively froze in the Ni profile at that temperature. On subsequent cooling only the clear outer taenite continued to equilibrate with the kamacite matrix producing the kink in the M profile. Cloudy taenite is therefore a variety of plessite differing from the usual varieties in that it forms at lower temperatures in areas much richer in Ni, and the morphology is not crystallographically oriented. Its absence can provide a sensitive indication of reheating.

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