Oxygen isotope heterogeneities in the earliest protosolar gas recorded in a meteoritic calcium aluminum-rich inclusion
Oxygen isotope heterogeneities in the earliest protosolar gas recorded in a meteoritic calcium aluminum-rich inclusion
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陨石富含钙铝包裹体中记录的最早原太阳气体中的氧同位素异质性
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.003
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
E. Zinner
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作者:
J. Aléon;A. Goresy;E. Zinner
Combined petrologic, oxygen and magnesium isotopic and trace element analyses of a compound calcium–aluminum-rich inclusion (CAI) from the Efremovka reduced CV3 carbonaceous chondrite reveal that it consists of a Mg-rich,16O-rich xenolithic CAI, previously altered in the nebula, that impacted an extensively molten,16O-depleted, type A host CAI shortly before the end of the host's crystallization. Convoluted regions in the xenolith were probably formed by rapid crystallization of the partial melt produced during impact. Oxygen isotopic ratios in the host CAI are correlated both with melilite chemistry and location in the inclusion. The region immediately inside the Wark–Lovering rim of the CAI consists of16O-rich gehlenite with Δ17O ranging down to −20‰ but melilite becomes progressively16O-poor (Δ17O∼0‰) and Mg-rich towards the interior. In the absence of Mg isotopic fractionation, this variation is best attributed to O isotopic exchange between the nebular gas and the partially molten inclusion during its crystallization. This event lasted less than 200 h, which implies that the host CAI was transported between two nebular reservoirs with distinct O isotopic compositions during this time. Examination of possible transport mechanisms suggests that the transport occurred over a distance of less than 1 astronomical unit. The close-to-canonical26Al/27Al ratio of 4.1×10−5determined from both inclusions implies that at most 670,000 yr after the birth of the Solar System, the16O-rich reservoir was spatially limited and an16O-poor reservoir with typical planetary isotopic composition was available for planet formation.