{"id":17195,"date":"2019-01-21T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T07:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=17195"},"modified":"2019-09-16T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T04:38:19","slug":"near-equilibrium-isotope-fractionation-during-planetesimal-evaporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=17195","title":{"rendered":"Near-equilibrium isotope fractionation during planetesimal evaporationOPEN ACCESS<\/span> "},"content":{"rendered":"\n

E.D. Young, A. Shahar, F. Nimmo, H.E. Schlichting, E.A. Schauble, H. Tang, J. Labidi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Highlights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Silicon and Mg in differentiated rocky bodies exhibit heavy isotope enrichments that have been attributed to evaporation of partially or entirely molten planetesimals.
\u2022 We evaluate the mechanisms of planetesimal evaporation in the early solar system and the conditions that controled attendant isotope fractionations.
\u2022 A steady-state rock vapor forms within minutes to hours and results from a balance between rates of magma evaporation and atmospheric escape.
\u2022 Approaches to equilibrium isotope fractionation between vapor and melt should have been the norm during planet formation due to the formation of steady-state rock vapor atmospheres and\/or the presence of protostellar gas.
\u2022 The best fit to bulk Earth is for a carbonaceous chondrite-like source material with about 12% loss of Mg and 15% loss of Si resulting from near-equilibrium evaporation into the solar protostellar disk of H2 on timescales of 104 to 105 years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Silicon and Mg in differentiated rocky bodies exhibit heavy isotope enrichments that have been attributed to evaporation of partially or entirely molten planetesimals. We evaluate the mechanisms of planetesimal evaporation in the early solar system and the conditions that controlled attendant isotope fractionations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy balance at the surface of a body accreted within ~1\u202fMyr of CAI formation and heated from within by 26Al decay results in internal temperatures exceeding the silicate solidus, producing a transient magma ocean with a thin surface boundary layer of order <1\u202fm that would be subject to foundering. Bodies that are massive enough to form magma oceans by radioisotope decay (\u22650.1% M\u2295) can retain hot rock vapor even in the absence of ambient nebular gas. We find that a steady-state rock vapor forms within minutes to hours and results from a balance between rates of magma evaporation and atmospheric escape. Vapor pressure buildup adjacent to the surfaces of the evaporating magmas would have inevitably led to an approach to equilibrium isotope partitioning between the vapor phase and the silicate melt. Numerical simulations of this near-equilibrium evaporation process for a body with a radius of ~700\u202fkm yield a steady-state far-field vapor pressure of 10\u22128\u202fbar and a vapor pressure at the surface of 10\u22124\u202fbar, corresponding to 95% saturation. Approaches to equilibrium isotope fractionation between vapor and melt should have been the norm during planet formation due to the formation of steady-state rock vapor atmospheres and\/or the presence of protostellar gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We model the Si and Mg isotopic composition of bulk Earth as a consequence of accretion of planetesimals that evaporated subject to the conditions described above. The results show that the best fit to bulk Earth is for a carbonaceous chondrite-like source material with about 12% loss of Mg and 15% loss of Si resulting from near-equilibrium evaporation into the solar protostellar disk of H2 on timescales of 104 to 105\u202fyears.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E.D. Young, A. Shahar, F. Nimmo, H.E. Schlichting, E.A. Schauble, H. Tang, J. Labidi Icarus Available online 21 January 2019 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights \u2022 Silicon and Mg in differentiated rocky bodies exhibit heavy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,72,73],"tags":[3701,4810,1531,257,1206,4809,2192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195"}],"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=17195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20434,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195\/revisions\/20434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}