LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n“Pb-isotopic dating of the recently discovered diabasic angrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 12320 yielded ages of 4564.17\u202f\u00b1\u202f0.50\u202fMa and 4562.82\u202f\u00b1\u202f0.37\u202fMa for acid-insoluble and soluble minerals respectively. These ages are calculated using measured 238U\/235U ratios of soluble and insoluble minerals, thereby excluding the possibility that the apparent age difference is caused by internal U-isotopic variations. The age of the insoluble minerals is indistinguishable from published Pb isotopic ages of other medium-grained angrites SAH 99555 and D’Orbigny. The age of acid-soluble minerals is distinctly younger, with a 1.35\u202f\u00b1\u202f0.62\u202fMa age gap between the Pb-Pb ages of the two mineral fractions. The mineral hosts of U, Th and radiogenic Pb in the meteorite were identified through in-situ SIMS measurements of these elements in all minerals. The principal carriers of U, Th and radiogenic Pb are acid insoluble Al-Ti-rich augite and soluble Si-rich phosphate. Closure temperatures for diffusion of radiogenic Pb in these minerals are calculated to be respectively 820\u202f\u00b1\u202f90\u202f\u00b0C and 450\u202f\u00b1\u202f80\u202f\u00b0C using the observed range of crystal dimensions and the published experimental data for Pb diffusion in augite and apatite. The age difference between the pyroxene and phosphates has two potential explanations: (1) a late reheating event >450\u202f\u00b0C which may have re-set the U-Pb systematics of the phosphates but not the pyroxenes or (2) slow cooling of the rock from ~450\u2013820\u202f\u00b0C. If slow cooling is the reason for the age difference, we can estimate a model cooling rate of 270\u202f\u00b1\u202f150\u202f\u00b0C\/Ma over the estimated closure temperature range between pyroxenes and phosphates. This rate is ~11 orders of magnitude slower than petrologic cooling rates of quenched angrites at temperatures above 1000\u202f\u00b0C determined experimentally using the composition of Asuka 881371 groundmass (Keil, 2012), which is similar to NWA 12320 groundmass. If there was no late reheating event, the discrepancy between fast cooling rates at high temperatures near the solidus, followed by much slower cooling at lower temperatures, might have been caused by impact melting. It could also be attributed to the initial eruption of the source magma of NWA 12320 near the surface of the parent body, followed by burial due to subsequent eruptions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chitrangada Datta, Yuri Amelin, Evgenii Krestianinov, Anthony J. Irving, Ian S. Williams IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 30 January 2024 LINK “Pb-isotopic dating of the recently discovered diabasic angrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 12320 yielded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,523],"tags":[144,1825,1208,4158,1884,775,789,4125,1013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35148"}],"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=35148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35153,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35148\/revisions\/35153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}