Back-transformation of high-pressure phases in a shock melt vein of an H-chondrite during atmospheric passage: Implications for the survival of high-pressure phases after decompression

Details Back-transformation of high-pressure phases in a shock melt vein of an H-chondrite during atmospheric passage: Implications for the survival of high-pressure phases after decompression Back-transformation of high-pressure phases in a shock melt vein of an H-chondrite during atmospheric passage: Implications for the survival of high-pressure phases after decompression

Jan 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004e%26psl.217..141k&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 217, Issue 1-2, p. 141-150.

Physics

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Shock Event, H-Chondrite, Back-Transformation, Fusion Crust, Ringwoodite

Scientific paper

We investigated the H6-chondrite Yamato 75267, in which a fusion crust cuts a shock melt vein. The shock vein region, more than 280 μm from the fusion crust, contains high-pressure phases, such as ringwoodite, majorite-pyropess garnet and NaAlSi3O8 hollandite. However, the shock vein close to the fusion crust entirely consists of the low-pressure polymorphs, olivine, low-Ca pyroxene and plagioclase glass. The boundary between low- and high-pressure phase regions is parallel to the fusion crust. During the atmospheric passage, the peripheral part of the chondrite was melted to form the fusion crust. Our microscopic, laser micro-Raman, electron microprobe investigations and calculations indicate an area up to 300 μm from the fusion crust experienced a temperature of 1400°C after 3 s during the melting of the peripheral part. The high-pressure phases would, at this conditions, quickly transform back to their low-pressure polymorphs. The result obtained here indicates that post-shock temperatures in the interior part of the veins were much lower than 1400°C, thus leading to the survival of high-pressure phases in heavily shocked chondrites.

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