Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981natur.293..126w&link_type=abstract
Nature, vol. 293, Sept. 10, 1981, p. 126, 127.
Computer Science
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Chondrites, Computerized Simulation, Cooling, Kamacite, Solidification, Zone Melting, Electron Microscopy, Melts (Crystal Growth), Metallography, Nucleation, Meteorites, Chondrites, Cooling Rates, Metallography, Zoning, Solidification, Comparisons, Size, Nickel, Taenite, Gradients, Concentrations, Diffusion, Grains, Models, Formation
Scientific paper
The cooling rates of chondrites have been determined according to the cooling rate method of Wood (1967) which involves the measurement of the concentration of nickel in the interiors of taenite grains of various sizes. The present paper presents an investigation of the effect of zoning produced during solidification on the use of the Wood method. Cooling rate curves were obtained in a computer simulation based on a model of kamacite formation on the outer edge of a taenite sphere of uniform initial composition, followed by the inward radial progression of the kamacite-taenite interface. When a concentration gradient produced by solidification is present in the initial conditions, deviations from the cooling rate curves for uniform 10% Ni are obtained only at cooling rates greater than 1000 K/million years, which would result in an overestimation of the cooling rates based on observed Ni gradients in grains of radius greater than 20 microns.
Goldstein Joseph I.
Willis James J.
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