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Mar 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994lpi....25..939m&link_type=abstract
In Lunar and Planetary Inst., The Twenty-Fifth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: H-O p 939-940 (SEE N94-36136 11-9
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Hematite, Hypervelocity Impact, Impact Melts, Meteorite Collisions, Oxidation, Pyroxenes, Spectral Reflectance, Craters, Mars (Planet), Mineralogy, Quebec
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In earlier work, we showed using Mossbauer data that the mineralogy of iron-bearing phases in impact melt rocks from Manicouagan Crater (Quebec, Canada) is to a first approximation hematite and pyroxene. The visible and near-IR reflectivity data for these impact melt rocks show a continuous trend in band position from approximately 850 to approximately 1000 nm, which corresponds to the positions for the hematite and pyroxene endmembers, respectively. The oxidation is thought to occur shortly after the impact when oxidizing vapors and/or solutions reacted with the impact melt which was below its solidus temperature but still relatively hot. The reflectance data have important implications for Mars because band positions which occur between approximately 850 and 1000 nm bands observed for Mars can be attributed to hematite-pyroxene assemblages and not necessarily to different ferric mineralogy. Because oxidation of impact melt rocks at Manicouagan is thought to occur subsolidus, precursors for the hematite include oxides such as magnetite and ilmenite and silicates such as pyroxene and olivine. To determine if the Manicouagan impact-melt rocks are related to each other by simple thermal subsolidus oxidation, we calcined in air a relatively unoxidized Manicouagan impact-melt rock (MAN-74-608A). Previous work has shown that np-Hm (nanophase hematite) particles can be derived by calcination of iron-bearing silicates.
Bell James Francis III
Lauer Howard V. Jr.
Morris Richard V.
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