Noble gases and halogens in Graves Nunataks 06129: The complex thermal history of a felsic asteroid crust
Noble gases and halogens in Graves Nunataks 06129: The complex thermal history of a felsic asteroid crust
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格雷夫斯努纳塔克斯 06129 中的稀有气体和卤素:长英质小行星地壳的复杂热历史
DOI:
10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.013
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发表时间:
2015
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5
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Claydon J
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Claydon J
The meteorite Graves Nunataks 06128/06129 is a rare example of felsic asteroidal crust. Knowledge of its history can help shed light on the evolution processes of planetesimals. The noble gases can be used to constrain both the chronology of meteorites and the processes that result in movements of volatile elements on asteroidal bodies. We have examined the I–Xe and Ar–Ar systems of the plagioclase-rich achondrite, Graves Nunataks 06129 by high-resolution laser step-heating of irradiated samples. Iodine and129Xe∗are both present but are released at different temperatures and do not show a correlation, therefore the I–Xe system in GRA 06129 has no chronological significance. We propose that radiogenic129Xe∗was lost from primary phases and parentless129Xe∗was later introduced into the rock by interaction with a fluid sourced from a reservoir that evolved with a high I/Xe ratio. This could have been the same halogen-rich fluid that induced the conversion of merrillite and pyroxene into chlorapatite. Inherited40Ar (i.e. not generated byin situdecay of40K) is also present in one of three fragments studied here and may have been introduced at the same time as parentless129Xe∗.