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\n\u2022 A model of evaporation-driven gas\u2013melt interactions during chondrule formation is proposed.
\n\u2022 We examine the implications on generating oxygen isotopic compositions of chondrules.
\n\u2022 We show that dust evaporation is a key mechanism for generating the chondrule characteristics.
\n\u2022 Evaporation-driven gas\u2013melt interactions control the oxygen isotopic compositions of chondrules.
\n\u2022 Oxygen isotopic disequilibrium between pyroxene and olivine is a proxy of the dust enrichment.<\/p>\n
Primitive meteorites are characteristically formed from an aggregation of sub-millimeter silicate spherules called chondrules. Chondrules are known to present large three-isotope oxygen variations, much larger than shown by any planetary body. We show here that the systematic of these oxygen isotopic variations results from open-system gas\u2013melt exchanges during the formation of chondrules, a conclusion that has not been fully assessed up to now. We have considered Mg-rich porphyritic chondrules and have modeled the oxygen isotopic effects that would result from high-temperature interactions in the disk between precursor silicate dust and a gas enriched in SiO during the partial melting and evaporation of this dust. This formation process predicts: (i) a range of oxygen isotopic composition for bulk chondrules in agreement with that observed in Mg-rich porphyritic chondrules, and (ii) variable oxygen isotopic disequilibrium between chondrule pyroxene and olivine, which can be used as a proxy of the dust enrichment in the chondrule-forming region(s). Such enrichments are expected during shock waves that produce transient evaporation of dust concentrated in the mid-plane of the accretion disk or in the impact plumes generated during collisions between planetesimals. According to the present model, gas\u2013melt interactions under high PSiO(gas) left strong imprints on the major petrographic, chemical and isotopic characteristics of Mg-rich porphyritic chondrules.<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yves Marrocchi, Marc Chaussidon Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 430, 15 November 2015, Pages 308\u2013315 Received 30 May 2015, Revised 22 August 2015, Accepted 24 August 2015, Available online 2 September 2015 doi:10.1016\/j.epsl.2015.08.032 LINK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,59,56,148,7,65,578],"tags":[1839,1946,1947,1948,1845,1945],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458"}],"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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}