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Sep 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993metic..28..552m&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 28, no. 4, p. 552-560.
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Chemical Composition, Iron Meteorites, Meteoritic Microstructures, Silicates, Inclusions, Interstellar Chemistry, Meteoritic Composition
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Our studies of the silicate-bearing inclusions in the IIICD iron meteorites Maltahohe, Carlton, and Dayton suggest that their mineralogy and mineral compositions are related to the composition of the metal in the host meteorites. An inclusion in the low-Ni Maltahohe is similar in mineralogy to those in IAB irons, which contain olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase, graphite, and troilite. With increasing Ni concentration of the metal, silicate inclusions become poorer in graphite, richer in phosphates, and the phosphate and silicate assemblages become more complex. Dayton contains pyroxene, plagioclase, SiO2, brianite, panethite, and whitlockite, without graphite. In addition, mafic silicates become more FeO-rich with increasing Ni concentration of the hosts. In contrast, silicates in IAB irons show no such correlation with host Ni concentration, nor do they have the complex mineral assemblages of Dayton. These trends in inclusion composition and mineralogy in IIICD iron meteorites have been established by reactions between the S-rich metallic magma and the silicates, but the physical setting is uncertain. Of the two processes invoked by other authors to account for groups IAB and IIICD, fractional crystallization of S-rich cores and impact generation of melt pools, we prefer core crystallization. We suggest that the solidification of the IIICD core may have been very complex, involving fractional crystallization, nucleation effects and, possibly, liquid immiscibility.
Haack Henning
Keil Klaus
McCoy Timothy James
Scott Edward R. D.
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