A multielement isotopic study of refractory FUN and F CAIs: Mass-dependent and mass-independent isotope effects
A multielement isotopic study of refractory FUN and F CAIs: Mass-dependent and mass-independent isotope effects
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10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.029
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2018-01-15
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5
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Davis, Andrew M.
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Koop, Levke;Nakashima, Daisuke;Davis, Andrew M.
Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) are the oldest dated objects that formed inside the Solar System. Among these are rare, enigmatic objects with large mass-dependent fractionation effects (F CAIs), which sometimes also have large nucleosynthetic anomalies and a low initial abundance of the short-lived radionuclide Al-26 (FUN CAIs). We have studied seven refractory hibonite-rich CAIs and one grossite-rich CAI from the Murchison (CM2) meteorite for their oxygen, calcium, and titanium isotopic compositions. The Al-26-Mg-26 system was also studied in seven of these CAIs. We found mass-dependent heavy isotope enrichment in all measured elements, but never simultaneously in the same CAI. The data are hard to reconcile with a single-stage melt evaporation origin and may require reintroduction or reequilibration for magnesium, oxygen and titanium after evaporation for some of the studied CAIs.The initial Al-26/Al-27 ratios inferred from model isochrons span a range from < 1 x 10(-6) to canonical (similar to 5 x 10(-5)). The CAIs show a mutual exclusivity relationship between inferred incorporation of live Al-26 and the presence of resolvable anomalies in Ca-48 and Ti-50. Furthermore, a relationship exists between Al-26 incorporation and Delta O-17 in the hibonite-rich CAIs (i.e., Al-26-free CAIs have resolved variations in Delta O-17, while CAIs with resolved Mg-26 excesses have Delta O-17 values close to -23 parts per thousand). Only the grossite-rich CAI has a relatively enhanced Delta O-17 value (similar to-17 parts per thousand) in spite of a near-canonical Al-26/Al-27. We interpret these data as indicating that fractionated hibonite-rich CAIs formed over an extended time period and sampled multiple stages in the isotopic evolution of the solar nebula, including: (1) an Al-26-poor nebula with large positive and negative anomalies in Ca-48 and Ti-50 and variable Delta O-17; (2) a stage of Al-26-admixture, during which anomalies in Ca-48 and Ti-50 had been largely diluted and a Delta O-17 value of similar to-23 parts per thousand had been achieved in the CAI formation region; and (3) a nebula with an approximately canonical level of Al-26 and a Delta O-17 value of similar to-23 parts per thousand in the CAI formation region. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.