Computer Science
Scientific paper
Mar 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994metic..29..182p&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 29, no. 2, p. 182-199
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Achondrites, Chemical Composition, Meteoritic Composition, Oxygen 18, Petrology, Impact Melts, Lithology, Olivine, Silicates, Thermodynamic Properties, Meteorites, Divnoe, Petrology, Chemistry, Oxygen, Isotopes, Origin, Samples, Meteorite, Laboratory Studies, Stony Meteorites, Achondrites, Composition, Description, Mineralogy, Model, Procedure, Petrography, Lithology, Thermometry, Rare Earth Elements, Thermodynamics, Cooling, Parent Bodies, Chronology, Partial Melting, Crystallization, Depletion, Comparison
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The Divnoe meteorite is an olivine-rich primitive achondrite with subchondritic chemistry and mineralogy. It has a granoblastic, coarse-grained, olivine groundmass (CGL: coarse-grained lithology) with relatively large pyroxene-plagioclase poiklitic patches (PP) and small fine-grained domains of an opaque-rich lithology (ORL). Both PP and ORL are inhomogeneously distributed and display reaction boundaries with the groundmass. Major silicates, olivine Fa(20-28) and orthopyroxyene Fs(20-28 Wo(0.5-2.5), display systematic differences in composition between CGL and ORL as well as a complicated pattern of variations within CGL. Accessory plagioclase has low K content and displays regular igneous zoning with core compositions An(40-45) and rims An(32-37). The bulk chemical composition of Divnoe is similar to that of olivine-rich primitive achondrites, except for a depletion of incompatible elements and minor enrichment of refractory siderophiles. Oxygen isotope compositions for whole-rock and separated minerals from Divnoe fall in a narrow range, with mean delta O-18 = +4.91, delta O-17 = +2.24, and Delta O-17 = -0.26 +/- 0.11. The isotopic composition is not within the range of any previously recognized group but is very close to that of the brachinites. To understand the origin of Divnoe lithologies, partial melting and crystallization were modelled using starting compositions equal to that of Divnoe and some chondritic meteorites. It was found that the Divnoe composition could be derived from a chondritic source region by approximately 20 wt% partial melting at Ta approximately 1300 C and log(fO2) = IW-1.8, followed by approximtely 60 wt% crystallization of the partial melt formed, and removal of the still-liquid portion of the partial melt. Removal of the last partial melt resulted in depletion of the Divnoe plagioclase in Na and K. In this scenario, CGL represents the residue of partial melting, and PP is a portion of the partial melt that crystallized in situ. The ORL was formed during the final stages of partial melting by reaction between gaseous sulfur and residual olivine in the source region. A prominent feature of Divnoe is fine micron-scale chemical variations within olivine grains, related to lamellar structures the olivines display. The origin of these structures is not known.
Ariskin Alexei A.
Barsukova Larisa D.
Clayton Robert N.
Lipschutz Michael E.
Mayeda Toshiko K.
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