{"id":13796,"date":"2017-10-20T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2017-11-13T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:21:20","slug":"low-temperature-aqueous-alteration-on-the-cr-chondrite-parent-body-implications-from-in-situ-oxygen-isotope-analyses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=13796","title":{"rendered":"LOW-TEMPERATURE AQUEOUS ALTERATION ON THE CR CHONDRITE PARENT BODY: IMPLICATIONS FROM IN SITU OXYGEN-ISOTOPE ANALYSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christine E. Jilly-Rehak, Gary R. Huss, Kazu Nagashima, Devin L. Schrader<\/p>\n<p>Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta<br \/>\nIn Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 October 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0016703717306592\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The presence of hydrated minerals in chondrites indicates that water played an important role in the geologic evolution of the early Solar System; however, the process of aqueous alteration is still poorly understood. Renazzo-like carbonaceous (CR) chondrites are particularly well-suited for the study of aqueous alteration. Samples range from being nearly anhydrous to fully altered, essentially representing snapshots of the alteration process through time. We studied oxygen isotopes in secondary-minerals from six CR chondrites of varying hydration states to determine how aqueous fluid conditions (including composition and temperature) evolved on the parent body. Secondary minerals analyzed included calcite, dolomite, and magnetite. The O-isotope composition of calcites ranged from \u03b418O \u2248 9 to 35 \u2030, dolomites from \u03b418O \u2248 23 to 27 \u2030, and magnetites from \u03b418O \u2248 -18 to 5 \u2030. Calcite in less-altered samples showed more evidence of fluid evolution compared to heavily altered samples, likely reflecting lower water\/rock ratios. Most magnetite plotted on a single trend, with the exception of grains from the extensively hydrated chondrite MIL 090292. The MIL 090292 magnetite diverges from this trend, possibly indicating an anomalous origin for the meteorite. If magnetite and calcite formed in equilibrium, then the relative 18O fractionation between them can be used to extract the temperature of co-precipitation. Isotopic fractionation in Al Rais carbonate-magnetite assemblages revealed low precipitation temperatures (\u223c60\u00b0C). Assuming that the CR parent body experienced closed-system alteration, a similar exercise for parallel calcite and magnetite O-isotope arrays yields \u201cglobal\u201d alteration temperatures of \u223c55 to 88 \u00b0C. These secondary mineral arrays indicate that the O-isotopic composition of the altering fluid evolved upon progressive alteration, beginning near the Al Rais water composition of \u039417O \u223c 1 \u2030 and \u03b418O \u223c 10 \u2030, and becoming increasingly 16O-enriched toward a final fluid composition of \u039417O \u223c -1.2 \u2030 and \u03b418O \u223c -15 \u2030.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jillyrehak.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/fig1_jillyrehak_oiso-01.png?w=524&#038;h=584\" width=\"524\" height=\"584\" class=\"size-full\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comparison of carbonate and magnetite oxygen isotopes from CR chondrites.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jillyrehak.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/fig9_jillyrehak_oiso.png?w=310&#038;h=684\" width=\"310\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEM image and X-ray maps of a unique dark inclusion in Renazzo, a CR chondrite.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine E. Jilly-Rehak, Gary R. Huss, Kazu Nagashima, Devin L. Schrader Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 October 2017 LINK &#8220;The presence of hydrated minerals in chondrites indicates that water&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,9,12,65,127],"tags":[1051,1842,3273,1810,3268,1845],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796"}],"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=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13881,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions\/13881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}