Petrogenesis of Miller Range 07273, a New Type of Anomalous melt breccia: Implications for Impact Effects on the H chondrite Asteroid
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The authors thank Akira Yamaguchi, an anonymous reviewer, and Dr. Alan Rubin for comments that improved the quality of the manuscript. We also thank ANSMET, Johnson Space Center curation, and the Meteorite Working Group for collecting, sectioning, and distributing samples of Miller Range 07273. AMR thanks NASA for recent grant support that helped make this research possible (grants NNX10AH33G and NNH12ZDA001N from the Origins, Planetary Major Equipment, and Cosmochemistry programs), as well as discussions with Dr. Richard Hugo. JMF thanks the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences for providing vital material support. DSE acknowledges grant support from NASA (NNX16AD37G, Emerging Worlds program). Portions of this work were performed at GeoSoilEnviroCARS (Sector 13), Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory. GeoSoilEnviroCARS is supported by the National Science Foundation–Earth Sciences (EAR‐1128799) and Department of Energy‐GeoSciences (DE‐FG02‐94ER14466). This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE‐AC02‐06CH11357.
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Meteoritics and Planetary Science
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Citation
Publication Date
9-2017
Subjects
Asteroids -- geology
Abstract
Miller Range 07273 is a chondritic melt breccia that contains clasts of equilibrated ordinary chondrite set in a fine‐grained (μm), largely crystalline, igneous matrix. Data indicate that MIL was derived from the H chondrite parent asteroid, although it has an oxygen isotope composition that approaches but falls outside of the established H group. MIL also is distinctive in having low porosity, cone‐like shapes for coarse metal grains, unusual internal textures and compositions for coarse metal, a matrix composed chiefly of clinoenstatite and omphacitic pigeonite, and troilite veining most common in coarse olivine and orthopyroxene. These features can be explained by a model involving impact into a porous target that produced brief but intense heating at high pressure, a sudden pressure drop, and a slower drop in temperature. Olivine and orthopyroxene in chondrule clasts were the least melted and the most deformed, whereas matrix and troilite melted completely and crystallized to nearly strain‐free minerals. Coarse metal was largely but incompletely liquefied, and matrix silicates formed by the breakdown during melting of albitic feldspar and some olivine to form pyroxene at high pressure (>3 GPa, possibly to ~15–19 GPa) and temperature (>1350 °C, possibly to ≥2000 °C). The higher pressures and temperatures would have involved back‐reaction of high‐pressure polymorphs to pyroxene and olivine upon cooling. Silicates outside of melt matrix have compositions that were relatively unchanged owing to brief heating duration.
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10.1111/maps.12901
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26395
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Ruzicka, A. M., Hutson, M., Friedrich, J. M., Rivers, M. L., Weisberg, M. K., Ebel, D. S., ... & Dolan, A. A. (2017). Petrogenesis of Miller Range 07273, a new type of anomalous melt breccia: Implications for impact effects on the H chondrite asteroid. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 52(9), 1963-1990.
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