Noble gas content and isotope abundances in phases of the Saint‐Aubin (UNGR) iron meteorite     

Chikako NISHIMURA  Jun‐ichi MATSUDA  Gero KURAT 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2008,43(8):1333-1350

Abstract— We analyzed the noble gas isotopes in the Fe‐Ni metal and inclusions of the Saint‐Aubin iron meteorite, utilizing the stepwise heating technique to separate the various components of noble gases. The light noble gases in all samples are mostly cosmogenic, with some admixture from the terrestrial atmosphere. Total abundances of noble gases in metal are one of the lowest found so far in iron meteorites and the ⁴He/²¹Ne ratio is as high as 503, suggesting that the Saint‐Aubin iron meteorite was derived from a very large meteoroid in space. The exposure ages obtained from cosmogenic ³He were 9–16 Ma. Saint‐Aubin is very peculiar because it contains very large chromite crystals, which—like the metal—contain only cosmogenic and atmospheric noble gases. The noble gases in all the samples do not reveal any primordial components. The only exception is the 1000 °C fraction of schreibersite which contained about 5% of the Xe‐HL component. The Xe‐Q and the El Taco Xe components were not found and only the Xe‐HL is present in this fraction. Some presolar diamond, the only carrier for the HL component known today, must have been available during growth of the schreibersite. However, it is also possible that this excess is due to the addition of cosmogenic and fission components. In this case, all the primordial components are masked (or lost) by the later events such as cosmic‐ray irradiation, heating, and radioactive decay.  相似文献   

On the origin of silicate-bearing diamondites     

Gabor Dobosi  Gero Kurat 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2010,99(1-2):29-42

Garnets and clinopyroxenes, intergrown with diamonds in 37 diamondites (“bort”, “polycrystalline diamond aggregates”, “polycrystalline diamond”, “framesite”), presumably from southern Africa, were analyzed for trace element contents by LA-ICP-MS. The intimate diamond-silicate intergrowths suggest that both precipitated from the same fluids during the same crystallization events. In this study we distinguish 5 chemical garnet groups: “peridotitic” (P), intermediate (I) and 3 “eclogitic” groups (E1, E2 and E3). Chondrite-normalized trace element patterns for the garnet groups roughly correlate with major element abundances. Most of P garnets show complex, mildly sinusoidal REE_N patterns with relatively flat HREE_N-MREE_N, a small hump at Sm-Nd and depleted LREE_N, and have relatively high contents of Nb, Ta, U, and Th. The REE_N abundance patterns of E garnets differ by showing a continuous increase from LREE to HREE and depletion in LREE and highly incompatible elements relative to the P garnets. Of all garnet groups, E3 garnets are the poorest in highly incompatible trace elements and in Mg. Model equilibrium fluids for P garnets suggest crystallization from magnesian carbonate-bearing fluids/melts, which were very rich in incompatible trace elements — similar to kimberlites. Hypothetical equilibrium melts for E1 and E2 garnets are also magnesian and poorer in LREE and highly incompatible elements relative to typical kimberlitic or carbonatitic melts. Fluids that crystallized the P and most of the E garnets have similar mg numbers indicating a peridotitic source for both. The differences in Cr and highly incompatible element contents can be the result of differences in fluid formation and/or evolution rather than different source rock. The positive correlation of Cr₂O₃ and mg with the abundances of highly incompatible elements in garnets indicate fluid-rock fractionation processes rather than igneous fractional crystallization processes being responsible for the evolution of the diamondite-forming fluids.  相似文献   

THE RUHOBOBO,RWANDA METEORITE: A NEW L6 CHONDRITE     

Hans Klob  Alfred Kracher  Gero Kurat 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1981,16(1):1-7

Ruhobobo is a new meteorite which fell in Rwanda, Africa, in 1976. We found and analyzed olivine (Fa 23.4), opx (Fs 19.7, Wo 1.4), cpx (Fs 7.5, Wo 44.0), plagioclase (An 11.7, Or 5.6), chromite, “whitlockite”, kamacite, taenite and troilite. Based on these analyses and on microscopic observation, Ruhobobo is an unshocked L6 chondrite.  相似文献   

Small Antarctic micrometeorites: A mineralogical and in situ oxygen isotope study     

Matthieu GOUNELLE  Ccile ENGRAND  Michel MAURETTE  Gero KURAT  Kevin D. McKEEGAN  Franz BRANDSTTTER 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2005,40(6):917-932

Abstract— We have investigated the texture, bulk chemistry, mineralogy, as well as the anhydrous minerals oxygen isotopic composition of 67 small Antarctic micrometeorites (AMMs) collected at Cap Prudhomme, Antarctica, and belonging to the currently poorly studied size fraction 25–50 μm. When compared to larger (50–400 μm) micrometeorites collected at the same site in Antarctica with the same techniques, no significant differences are found between the two populations. We therefore conclude that the population of Cap Prudhomme AMMs is homogeneous over the size range 25–400 μm. In contrast, small AMMs have different textures, mineralogy, and oxygen isotopic compositions than those of stratospheric interplanetary dust particles (IDPs). Because small AMMs (<50 μm) overlap in size with IDPs, the differences between these two important sources of micrometeorites can no longer be attributed to a variation of the micrometeorite composition with size. Physical biases introduced by the collection procedures might account for these differences.  相似文献   

Geochemistry of metasomatised spinel peridotite xenoliths from the Dariganga Plateau, South-eastern Mongolia   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

V. A. Kononova  G. Kurat  A. Embey-Isztin  V. A. Pervov  C. Koeberl  F. Brandstätter 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2002,75(1-2):1-21

Summary One fresh (green), one altered (black) and one composite (green/black) peridotite xenolith from the Neogene-Quaternary basalts of the Dariganga Plateau, SE Mongolia, were studied by electron microprobe, X-ray fluorescence, wet chemical and instrumental neutron activation analysis. The history of the upper mantle underneath the Dariganga Plateau has been complex and is characterised by elemental depletions and enrichments processes. The rocks investigated appear to have been processed in several steps, have been moderately depleted (relative to the primitive upper mantle composition) in incompatible elements and subsequently metasomatically enriched in alkalis, Fe, Ca, LREE, Th and U. As a result, most peridotites are moderately depleted in Si, Cr, Ti, HREE and Hf, are slightly enriched in LREE and have elevated Th and U abundances. The minerals in all rocks are out of chemical equilibrium. In the green peridotites disequilibrium is modest but it is severe in the blackened lherzolites. The latter have experienced strong Fe metasomatism accompanied by strong oxidation. As a result, Mg-rich olivines formed by oxidation and precipitation of Fe oxides in the primary olivines (blackening) and Fe-rich olivines formed in the Fe metasomatic event. The latter could only have taken place after the oxidising event, otherwise the Fe-rich olivines would also have been affected by it. Three of the four rocks show negative anomalies (relative to the Ce abundance) of Hf and Ti, one is enriched in these elements, which is considered an indication of the action of carbonatitic melts/fluids in the upper mantle. Enrichment of U over Th in some of our samples seems also to indicate the presence of water in the fluid phase, however, the lack of (OH)-bearing minerals in the Dariganga xenoliths suggests a low activity of water in these fluids. The latest of the metasomatic events probably took place shortly before entrapment of the rocks by the basaltic lava that carried them to the earth’s surface. The composite sample consisting of a green harzburgite and a black lherzolite suggests that blackening took place at the original location of the rock rather than in the basaltic tuff because the latter should have altered the whole xenolith. It also demonstrates that metasomatic processes in the upper mantle can be confined to rather restricted locations with sharp boundaries towards the wall rocks. Blackening as well as the metasomatic events apparently took place because of a better permeability in one part of the rock as compared to the other, probably the result of tectonisation. Received May 28, 1999; revised version accepted February 24, 2001  相似文献   

Luna 16 microbreccia lithic fragments: Samples of an early basalt filling of mare fecunditatis     

Univ. Doz. Dr. G. Kurat  A. Kracher  Prof. Dr. K. Keil 《Mineralogy and Petrology》1980,27(1):41-66

Summary Thirty five microbreccia fragments from Mare Fecunditatis recovered by the Luna 16 unmanned mission were studied inPTS by optical microscopy. Bulk compositions were determined by scanning electron beam analysis, and microbreccia constituents (pyroxene, olivine, plagioclase, spinel-group minerals, glasses) were analyzed with the electron microprobe. Results: Microbreccia fragments have bulk and mineral compositions distinctly different from those of aluminous basalt fragments from the same site: FeO, alkalis and FeO/MgO are lower and Cr₂O₃ is higher in the microbreccia fragments. Furthermore, microbreccia fragments are predominantly olivine-normative, whereas the basalt fragments are predominantly quartz-normative. In addition, in the microbreccia fragments, pyroxene compositions cover the range typical of pyroxenes from Luna 16 basalts but extend to more Mg-rich and Ca-poor compositions. Pyroxferroites found in aluminous basalt fragments were not observed in the microbreccia fragments. Plagioclase populations cluster at ) An₉₅ in the microbreccia fragments as compared to ) An₉₀ in the basalt fragments. Compositions of basaltic glasses from within the microbreccia fragments are similar to those from the soil. Conclusions: We found evidence that at the Luna 16 site, two major basalt types are present. One is represented by the 3.42 b.y. old aluminous basalt fragments, the other by the dominant component in the microbreccia fragments and basaltic glasses. The microbreccia fragments and basaltic glasses represent a here tofore unknown lunar basalt type for which we calculate a flatREE pattern with abundances approximately 10× chondritic, thus making it one of the most primitive basalt types known from the Moon. We suggest that this basalt type formed by a relatively high degree of partial melting of a plagioclase bearing source rock at about 60–100 km depth. We further suggest that this basalt type represents older mare fillings now largely covered by younger flows. These younger flows are represented by the aluminous basalt fragments, a rock type that may have formed from a similar source rock by a relatively low degree of partial melting.

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Luna 16 mikrobrekzien fragmente: proben eines frühen basaltes aus dem mare foecunditatis

Zusammenfassung 35 Mikrobrekzien-Fragmente aus der Bodenprobe von Mar Foecunditatis, die von der unbemannten Sonde Luna 16 aufgesammelt wurde, sind in polierten Dünnschliffen mikroskopisch und mittels Elektronenstrahl-Mikrosonde untersucht worden. Pauschalzusammensetzungen der Mikrobrekzien-Fragmente wurden mittels integrierender Elektronen-Raster-Technik und die zusammensetzungen der Komponenten (Pyroxen, Olivin, Plagioklas, Minerale der Spinell-Gruppe und Gläser) mittels konventioneller Elektronenstrahl-Mikroanalyse bestimmt. Resultate: Die Mikrobrekzien-Fragmente unterscheiden sich in ihrer Pauschalzusammensetzung deutlich von den Aluminiumreichen Basaltfragmenten derselben Bodenprobe: FeO- und Alkaligehalte und das FeO/ MgO-Verhältnis sind niedriger und der Cr₂O₃-Gehalt ist höher in den Mikrobrekzien-Fragmenten. Weiters sind die Mikrobrekzien-Fragmente meist Olivin-normativ, während die Basaltfragmente meist Quarz-normativ sind. Auch die Pyroxenzusammensetzungen in den Mikrobrekzien-Fragmenten unterscheiden sich deutlich von jenen der Basaltfragmente durch einen hohen Anteil an Mg-reichen und Ca-armen Pyroxenen, die in den Basaltfragmenten nicht vorkommen. Weiters konnten Pyroxferroite, die typisch für die Luna 16 Basaltfragmente sind, in den Mikrobrekzien-Fragmenten nicht gefunden werden. Die Plagioklas-Zusammensetzungen in den Mikrobrekzien-Fragmenten zeigen ein ausgeprägtes Häufigkeitsmaximum bei ) An₉₅, wogegen das Maximum der Plagioklase in den Basaltfragmenten bei ) An₉₀ liegt. Die Zusammensetzung der Gläser in den Mikrobrekzien-Fragmenten und in den Bodenproben außerhalb der Fragmente ist identisch. Schlußfolgerungen: Die analytischen Daten zeigen, daß an der Luna 16 Landestelle zwei Basalttypen weit verbreitet sind. Der eine Typ ist durch die 3.42×10⁹ Jahre alten Aluminium-reichen Basaltfragmente vertreten, der andere durch die Hauptkomponente der Mikrobrekzienfragmente und basaltischen Gläser. Letzterer repräsentiert einen bisher nicht bekannten Basalttyp vom Mond, der Olivin- und Plagioklas-reich ist und einen niedrigen Spurenelementgehalt hat. Die errechnete Häufigkeit der Seltenen Erden ist etwa 10× chondritische Häufigkeit und weitesgehend unfraktioniert. Dieser neue Basalttyp scheint somit einer der primitivsten zu sein, den wir bisher vom Monde kennen. Er repräsentiert wahrscheinlich eine Schmelze, die durch einen hohen Grad von partieller Aufschmelzung eines plagioklasführenden Ausgangsgesteins in einer Tiefe von etwa 60–100 km entstand. Dieser Basalttyp stellt wahrscheinlich ältere Füllungen des Mare Foecunditatis dar, welche später durch jüngere Basaltergüsse größtenteils bedeckt wurden. Diese jüngeren Basalte sind durch die Basaltfragmente repräsentiert und sind durch hohe Spurenelementgehalte charakterisiert. Die Zusammensetzung der jüngeren Basalte kann durch eine relativ geringe und jene der älteren (Brekzien-) Basalte durch einen hohen Grad partieller Aufschmelzung eines ähnlichen Ausgangsgesteines erklärt werden.

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Violan revisited: Mn-bearing omphacite and diopside     

Dr. A. Mottana  Dr. G. Rossi  Dr. A. Kracher  Dr. G. Kurat 《Mineralogy and Petrology》1979,26(3):187-201

Summary Violet clinopyroxenes (violan) from the manganese deposit of Praborna, near St. Marcel (Aosta Valley, Italy) occur in two different varieties: euhedral crystals grown in vugs and massive lamellar to fibrous aggregates. The euhedral crystals are predominantlyP2/n omphacite with a(Di+Hd+Jo)/(Jd+Ac+Mnjd) ratio close to unity. The lamellar aggregates consist mainly of disorderedC2/c impure diopside with alternating patches of pure diopsidic and moderately omphacitic compositions.The deep violet colour, occasionally shading to blue, is presumably due to the presence of both Mn³⁺ and Mn²⁺ ions. Detailed crystal structure determinations andEPR spectra investigations, however, did not clearly solve the question of the oxidation state of manganese because of the low amounts of manganese being present in violan. Crystal structure determinations and microprobe analyses nevertheless clearly showed that violan is not a mineral species. The name should therefore be reserved for the ex-colore violet varieties of both diopside and omphacite.

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Violan, ein Mn-führender Omphacit und Diopsid

Zusammenfassung Violett gefärbte Klinopyroxene (violan) von der Manganlagerstätte Praborna bei St. Marcel (Aosta-Tal, Italien) bilden entweder idiomorphe Kristalle in Hohlräumen, oder massive lamellare bis feinfaserige Aggregate. Die idiomorphen Kristalle sind zum überwiegenden TeilP2/n Omphazite mit einem (Di+Hd+Jo):(Jd+Ac+Mnjd) Verhältnis von etwa 1 1. Die lamellaren Aggregate bestehen hauptsächlich aus ungeordnetemC2/c Diopsid, wobei die chemische Zusammesetzung partienweise zwischen diopsidisch und leicht omphazitisch wechselt.Die tief violette Farbe wird wahrscheinlich durch das Vorhandensein von Mn³⁺ und Mn²⁺-Ionen verursacht. Eine eindeutige Klärung dieser Frage war jedoch trotz detaillierter Kristallstruktur-Bestimmung und Auswertung vonEPR Spektren nicht möglich, da der Mangangehalt der Violane überraschend gering ist.Die detaillierten Kristallstruktur-Analysen ergaben jedoch eindeutig, daß Violan keine selbständige Mineralspecies ist. Dieser Name sollte daher nur für die violetten Farbvarietäten von Omphaziten und Diopsiden verwendet werden.

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Glasses in the D'Orbigny angrite     

Maria Eugenia Varela  Gero Kurat  Nicole Métrich  Theodoros Ntaflos 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2003,67(24):5027-5046

The angrites are a small and heterogeneous group of achondritic meteorites with highly unusual chemical and mineralogical features. The abundant presence of glasses in D'Orbigny makes this rock a unique member of the angrite group. Glasses fill open spaces, form pockets, and occur as inclusions in olivines. Their physical settings exclude an incorporation from an external source. Major and trace element (rare earth elements [REE], Li, B, Be, transition elements, N and C) contents of these glasses and host olivines were measured combining laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA), and EMP techniques. Based on the major element composition, glasses filling voids could represent either a melt formed by melting an angritic rock or a melt from which angrites could have crystallized. Trace element contents of these glasses strongly indicate a direct link to the D'Orbigny bulk meteorite. They are incompatible with the formation of the glasses by partial melting of a chondritic source rock or by shock melting. The refractory elements (e.g., Al, Ti, Ca) have about 10 × CI abundances with CaO/TiO₂ and FeO/MnO ratios being approximately chondritic. Trace element abundances in the glasses appear to be governed by volatility and suggest that the refractory elements in the source had chondritic relative abundances. Although the glasses (and the whole rock) lack volatile elements such as Na and K, they are rich in some moderately volatile elements such as B, V, Mn, Fe (all with close to CI abundances), and Li (about 3-5 × CI). These elements likely were added to the glass in a sub-solidus metasomatic elemental exchange event. We have identified a novel mechanism for alteration of glass and rock compositions based on an exchange of Al and Sc for Fe and other moderately volatile elements in addition to the well-known metasomatic exchange reactions (e.g., Ca-Na and Mg-Fe).Because glass inclusions in olivine were partly shielded from the metasomatic events by the host crystal, their chemical composition is believed to be closer to the original composition than that of any other glasses. The relative trace element abundances in glasses of glass inclusions in olivine and glass pockets are also unfractionated and at the 10 to 20 × CI level. These glasses are chemically similar to the common void-filling glasses but show a much wider compositional variation. Inclusion glasses demonstrate that at least olivine grew with the help of a liquid. In analogy to olivines in carbonaceous chondrites, initial formation could also have been a vapor-liquid-solid condensation process. At that time, the glass had a purely refractory composition. This composition, however, was severely altered by the metasomatic addition of large amounts of FeO and other moderately volatile elements. The presence of volatile elements such as carbon and nitrogen in glasses of glass inclusions is another feature that appears to give these glasses a link with those hosted by olivines of carbonaceous chondrites. All these features point to an origin from a vapor with relative abundances of condensable elements similar to those in the solar nebula.  相似文献   

Garnet and diopside-bearing diamondites (framesites)   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

G. Kurat  G. Dobosi 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2000,69(3-4):143-159

Summary ?Rocks consisting almost entirely of diamonds (diamondites) that contain minor amounts of silicates were analyzed for trace element abundances in the silicates by Laser Ablation ICP Mass Spectrometry for the first time. Diamondites, previously described as polycrystalline diamond “aggregates” and “framesite”, extend the range of monomineralic rocks known from the Earth’s upper mantle. Our samples are intergrowths of diamonds with abundant open cavities and some interstitial silicates. The most common silicate is pyrope which occurs in two different colors (and chemical compositions): orange and lilac similar to garnet inclusions in diamonds and garnets known from upper mantle eclogites and garnet peridotites, respectively. In our sample, the “peridotitic” garnet is accompanied by Cr-rich diopside whereas the “eclogitic” garnet is unaccompanied. Trace element abundances suggest that both types of garnet formed from upper mantle fluids of similar origin which were rich in a carbonatitic component. The diamondites likely formed from the same fluids. Diamonds precipitated first and – in smaller amounts – contemporaneously with the silicates. Major upper mantle minerals like olivine, orthopyroxene and omphacite are missing, possibly indicating that these minerals behaved as refractory phases and were not mobilized by fluids. The chemical composition of “eclogite” and “peridotite” garnets differ in Cr and high field strength elements contents but not in the moderately compatible elements. They also have the same low Fe/Mg ratio which indicates a peridotitic source for the fluids. The compositional difference in minor and trace elements appears to be the result of different fluid processing rather than of a different source, i.e., peridotite or eclogite.

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Zusammenfassung Granat- und Diopsid-führende Diamantite (Framesite) Silikat-führende Gesteine aus Diamanten (Diamantite) wurden erstmals mittels Laser Ablation ICP Massenspektrometrie auf ihre Gehaltean Spurenelementen analysiert. Diese ursprünglich als polykristalline Diamant-“Aggregate” und Framesite beschriebenen Diamantite werden den monomineralischen Gesteinen des Erdmantels zugeordnet. Unsere Proben sind Verwachsungen von Diamanten mit verbreitet offenen Hohlr?umen und wenig interstitialen Silikaten. Das verbreitetste Silikat ist Pyrop, welcher zwei verschiedene Farben und chemische Zusammensetzungen hat: orange und fliederfarben, ?hnlich den Granat-Einschlüssen in Diamanten und den Granaten aus Erdmantel-Eklogiten und Peridotiten. In unserer Probe ist der “peridotitische” Granat von Cr-Diopsid begleitet, der “eklogitische” Granat ist unbegleitet. Die Spurenelement-H?ufigkeiten in beiden Granaten machen es wahrscheinlich, da? diese von Erdmantel-Fluiden gebildet wurden, die reich an einerkarbonatitischen Komponente waren und aus ?hnlichen Quellen stammten. Die Diamanten wurden wahrscheinlich von denselben Fluiden gebildet. Diamanten wurden zuerst ausgef?llt und wuchsen – in geringerem Ausma?– auch gemeinsam mit den Silikaten. Hauptminerale des Erdmantels wie Olivin, Orthopyroxen und Omphazit fehlen. M?glicherweise verhielten sich diese Minerale refrakt?r und wurden von den Fluiden nicht mobilisiert. Die chemische Zusammensetzung von “eklogitischem” und “peridotitischem” Granat unterscheidet sich in den Gehaltenan Cr und den Elementen, welche lonen hoher Feldst?rke bilden, aber nicht in den moderat kompatiblen Elementen. Die beiden Granate haben auch das gleiche niedrige Fe/Mg-Verh?ltnis, welches auf eine peridotitische Quelle für die Fluide hinweist. Die Unterschiede in der H?ufigkeit von Neben- und Spurenelementen in den Granaten k?nnte auf verschiedene Entwicklung der Fluide zurückzuführen sein und wahrscheinlich nicht auf eine Herkunft der Fluide aus verschiedenen Quellen, wie Peridotiten oder Eklogiten.

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Isolated olivines in the Yamato 82042 CM2 chondrite: The tracing of major condensation events in the solar nebula     

G. Kurat  M. Mayr  Th. Ntaflos  A. L. Graham 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1989,24(1):35-42

Abstract— Yamato 82042 is an unusual CM2 chondrite consisting mainly of phyllosilicates, a few olivines and carbonates, very minor sulphides and trace metal. Olivine occurs: (1) as isolated grains dispersed in the phyllosilicate matrix, (2) as constituents of mineral aggregates or accretionary fragments associated with abundant phyllosilicates and minor sulphides, and (3) as objects which resemble barred olivine chondrules also associated with phyllosilicates. Olivine, from all occurrences, ranges in composition from 0.26 to 22.6 weight % FeO, but generally contains less than 1.25 wt.% FeO. Minor element contents, particularly Ca, Al, and Cr, are relatively high and are generally correlated, as reported for olivines in other carbonaceous chondrites. However, we report here uncorrected trends for the same minor elements which occur in distinct areas (volumes) within the same olivines. These compositional trends may be due to condensation of olivine from a vapor of non-solar composition and partial mobilization of Ca during later annealing. If this is the case, the data may be used to trace changes in the Ca/Al ratio of the parent medium during the formation of these olivines, provided that it is possible to distinguish the effects of any post-formation annealing which could have redistributed the minor elements. Some isolated olivines show distinctive minor element zoning which severely limits the possibility of any post-formation redistribution of these elements. Accordingly, these isolated olivines indeed retain evidence of early condensation processes in the solar nebula, though non-classic conditions are implied for their formation.  相似文献