LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n“Titanium isotopes are potential tracers of processes of evaporation\/condensation in the solar nebula and magmatic differentiation in planetary bodies. To gain new insights into the processes that control Ti isotopic variations in planetary materials, 25 komatiites, 15 chondrites, 11 HED-clan meteorites, 5 angrites, 6 aubrites, a martian shergottite, and a KREEP-rich impact melt breccia have been analyzed for their mass-dependent Ti isotopic compositions, presented using the \u03b449Ti notation (deviation in permil of the 49Ti\/47Ti ratio relative to the OL-Ti standard). No significant variation in \u03b4 49Ti is found among ordinary, enstatite, and carbonaceous chondrites, and the average chondritic \u03b449Ti value of +0.004 \u00b1 0.010 \u2030 is in excellent agreement with the published estimate for the bulk silicate Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the HED and angrite parent-bodies. The average \u03b449Ti value of komatiites of -0.001 \u00b1 0.019 \u2030 is also identical to that of the bulk silicate Earth and chondrites. OL-Ti has a Ti isotopic composition that is indistinguishable from chondrites and is therefore a suitable material for reporting \u03b449Ti values. Previously published isotope data on another highly refractory element, Ca, show measurable variations among chondrites. The decoupling between Ca and Ti isotope systematics most likely occurred during condensation in the solar nebula.<\/p>\n
Aubrites exhibit significant variations in \u03b449Ti, from -0.07 to +0.24 \u2030. This is likely due to the uniquely reducing conditions under which the aubrite parent-body differentiated, allowing chalcophile Ti3+ and lithophile Ti4+ to co-exist. Consequently, the observed negative correlation between \u03b449Ti values and MgO concentrations among aubrites is interpreted to be the result of isotope fractionation driven by the different oxidation states of Ti in this environment, such that isotopically heavy Ti4+ was concentrated in the residual liquid during magmatic differentiation.<\/p>\n
Finally, KREEPy impact melt breccia Sau 169 exhibits a heavy \u03b449Ti of +0.330 \u00b1 0.034 \u2030 which is interpreted to result from Ti isotopic fractionation during ilmenite precipitation in the late stages of lunar magma ocean crystallization. A Rayleigh distillation calculation assuming a crystallization temperature of 1175\u00b0C predicts that a \u03b449Ti value of +0.330 \u2030 is achieved after removal of 94% of the Ti in ilmenite with an ilmenite-melt Ti isotopic fractionation of \u20130.12\u2030.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nicolas D. Greber, Nicolas Dauphas, Igor S. Puchtel, Beda A. Hofmann, Nicholas T. Arndt Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 June 2017 LINK “Titanium isotopes are potential tracers of processes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,9,17,33,42,7,43],"tags":[3960,1356,1946,2206,2735,3961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13104,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions\/13104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}