| Affiliation: | 1. Monnig Meteorite Collection, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 2. 298830, Fort Worth, Texas, 76109 USA
Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742 USA;3. Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, 20560 USA;4. 298830, Fort Worth, Texas, 76109 USA;5. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32310 USA;6. Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742 USA;7. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742 USA;8. Planetary and Space Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA UK |
| Abstract: | The incompatible trace element-enriched Stannern-trend eucrites have long been recognized as requiring a distinct petrogenesis from the Main Group-Nuevo Laredo (MGNL) eucrites. Barrat et al. ( 2007 ) proposed that Stannern-trend eucrites formed via assimilation of crustal partial melts by a MGNL-trend magma. Previous experimental studies of low-degree partial melting of eucrites did not produce sufficiently large melt pools for both major and trace element analyses. Low-degree partial melts produced near the solidus are potentially the best analog to the assimilated crustal melts. We partially melted the unbrecciated, unequilibrated MGNL-trend eucrite NWA 8562 in a 1 atm gas-mixing furnace, at IW-0.5, and at temperatures between 1050 and 1200 °C. We found that low-degree partial melts formed at 1050 °C are incompatible trace element enriched, although the experimental melts did not reach equilibrium at all temperatures. Using our experimental melt compositions and binary mixing modeling, the FeO/MgO trend of the resultant magmas coincides with the range of known Stannern-trend eucrites when a primary magma is contaminated by crustal partial melts. When experimental major element compositions for eucritic crustal partial melts are combined with trace element concentrations determined by previous modeling (Barrat et al. 2007 ), the Stannern-trend can be replicated with respect to both major, minor, and trace element concentrations. |
