Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jul 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000m%26ps...35..817k&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 817-825 (2000).
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
The CV (Vigarano-type) chondrites are a petrologically diverse group of meteorites that are divided into the reduced and the Bali-like and Allende-like oxidized subgroups largely based on secondary mineralogy (Weisberg et al., 1997; Krot et al., 1998b). Some chondrules and CAIs in the reduced CV chondrite Vigarano show alteration features similar to those in Allende: metal is oxidized to magnetite; low-Ca pyroxene, forsterite, and magnetite are rimmed and veined by ferrous olivine (Fs40-50), and plagioclase mesostases and melilite are replaced by nepheline and sodalite (Sylvester et al., 1993; Kimura and Ikeda, 1996, 1997, 1998). Our petrographic observations indicate that Vigarano also contains individual chondrules, chondrule fragments and lithic clasts of the Bali-like oxidized CV materials. The largest lithic clast, ~ 1x2 cm in size, is composed of opaque matrix, type I chondrules (400-2000 μm in apparent diameter) surrounded by coarse-grained and fine-grained rims, and rare CAIs. The matrix/chondrule ratio is ~1.1. Opaque nodules in chondrules in the clast consist of Cr-poor and Cr-rich magnetite, Ni- and Co-rich metal, Ni-poor and Ni-rich sulfide; low-Ni metal nodules occur only inside chondrule phenocrysts. Cr-poor magnetite is preferentially replaced by fayalite. Chondrule mesostases are replaced by phyllosilicates; low-Ca pyroxene and olivine phenocrysts appear to be unaltered. Matrix in the clast consists of very fine-grained (< 1 μm) ferrous olivine, anhedral fayalite grains (Fa80-100), rounded objects of porous Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes (Fs10-50Wo50), Ni-poor sulfide, Ni- and Co-rich metal, and phyllosilicates; magnetite is rare. Based on the presence of the Bali-like lithified chondritic clast, in addition to individual chondrules and CAIs of both Bali-like and Allende-like materials, in the reduced CV chondrite Vigarano, we infer that (1) all three types of materials were mixed during regolith gardening on the CV asteroidal body, and (2) the reduced and oxidized CV materials may have originated from a single, heterogeneously-altered asteroid.
Keil Klaus
Krot Alexander N.
Meibom Anders
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