Formation conditions and chemical composition of early-condensed olivine in the solar protoplanetary disk

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Elian Ochem, Yves Marrocchi Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 20 October 2025 LINK “Highlights “The dynamic evolution of the solar protoplanetary disk led to the formation of the first solar system solids by…

Fabrics of forsterite in CBa chondrite Sierra Gorda 013

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Rong Li, Wei Chen & Chun-Hui Li Acta Geochimica, Published: 14 June 2025 LINK “CB chondrite is a class of meteorite rich in metal composition, and its characteristics are obviously different from other chondrite groups….

Aqueous Alteration of Forsterite Glass in PlanetesimalsOPEN ACCESS 

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Yudai Kobayashi, Tomoko Ikeda-Fukazawa ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, April 19, 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “To investigate the aqueous alteration mechanisms of forsterite glass in planetesimals, molecular dynamics calculations were performed using two-phase…

Equilibrium condensation of a solar composition gas, revisited: The anorthite effect

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Glenn J. MacPherson, Michail I. Petaev Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 31 December 2024 LINK “New full equilibrium condensation calculations for a hot gas of solar composition show that anorthite condenses prior to forsterite at…

Submicron-sized anhydrous crystalline silicates and their relation to amorphous silicate in the matrix of Acfer 094

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Hugues Leroux, Pierre-Marie Zanetta, Corentin Le Guillou, Maya Marinova Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 30 November 2024 LINK “The study of pristine chondrites provides insight into nebular processes that occurred prior…

An experimental simulation of oxygen isotope exchange reaction between amorphous silicate dust and carbon monoxide gas in the early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS 

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Daiki Yamamoto, Noriyuki Kawasaki, Shogo Tachibana, Lily Ishizaki, Ryosuke Sakurai, Hisayoshi Yurimoto Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 18 April 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The reaction mechanism and kinetics of oxygen isotope…

Determination of olivine fayalite–forsterite composition in ordinary chondrites by X‐ray diffraction

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V. E. Di Cecco, B. C. Hyde, K. T. Tait, R. I. Nicklin MAPSFirst Published: 27 April 2022 LINK “Ordinary chondrites account for the majority of the described meteorites on Earth. To expand the toolbox…

In-situ O-isotope analysis of relict spinel and forsterite in small (<200μm) Antarctic micrometeorites – samples of chondrules & CAIs from carbonaceous chondrites

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N.G. Rudraswami, M.D. Suttle, Y. Marrocchi, S. Taylord, J. Villeneuve Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 19 March 2022 LINK “We report high-precision secondary ion mass spectrometer triple oxygen isotope systematics (95…

Experiments to understand crystallization of levitated high temperature silicate melt droplets under low vacuum conditionsOPEN ACCESS 

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Biswajit Mishra, Pratikkumar Manvar, Kaushik Choudhury, S. Karagadde & Atul Srivastava Scientific Reports, Volume 10, Article number: 20910 (2020) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report experiments on crystallization of highly undercooled forsterite melt droplets…

Color Cathodoluminescence and minor element zonation of forsterite in Mukundpura chondriteOPEN ACCESS 

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Shivani BALIYAN, Dwijesh RAY Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological SciencesReleased: July 22, 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Mukundpura is a carbonaceous chondrite (CM2) recently fell in Rajasthan, India (June 6, 2017). A typical fine–grained,…

Cathodoluminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Forsterite from the Tagish Lake Meteorite: An Implication for the Luminescence – Based Astromineralogy

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Gucsik A. * Nishido H. Ninagawa K. Gyollai I. Izawa M. Kereszturi A. Modern Analytical Methods I Workshop on the Modern Analytical Methods Applied to Earth and Planetary Sciences (methods 2014) PDF LINK

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