Amphibole and hercynite spinel in Shergotty and Zagami Magmatic water, depth of crystallization, and metasomatism

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Jun 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985metic..20..229t&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 20, pt. 1, June 30, 1985, p. 229-243.

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Achondrites, Amphiboles, Magma, Metamorphism (Geology), Meteoritic Composition, Spinel, Crystallization, High Pressure, Igneous Rocks, Impact Melts, Inclusions, Microanalysis, Mineralogy, Water, Meteorites, Amphibole, Hercynite, Spinel, Shergotty, Zagami, Magmatism, Depth, Crystallization, Metasomatism, Inclusions, Melts, Saturation, Water, Pressure, Formation, Enrichment, Fractionation, E Chondrites, Magnetite, Reduction, Hydrogen, Cooling, Samples, Meteorite, Eucrites

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Amphibole and spinel occur in the Shergotty and Zagami meteorites only in magmatic inclusions in pigeonite. The trapped magma is essentially identical to the parental magmas for Shergotty and Zagami. The amphibole is a kaersutite with minimal halogen content; by inference, it must have been hydrous. If so, the Shergotty and Zagami melts contained at least 0.2 wt pct H2O and were probably H2O-undersaturated. Pressures in excess of 1 kilobar seem necessary for the formation of amphibole. Spinel replaces magnetite in the inclusions, and olivine replaces magnetite elsewhere in the meteorites. To stabilize spinel, the melt in the inclusions must have become enriched in Al during fractionation, possibly because the small volume of the inclusions made nucleation of plagioclase unlikely. Pervasive replacement of magnetite through reduction reactions suggests that Shergotty and Zagami interacted with hydrogen-rich fluids during their cooling.

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