Hard X-ray irradiation of cosmic silicate analogs: structural evolution and astrophysical implications

1L. Gavilan, 2C. Jäger, 3A. Simionovici, 4J. L. Lemaire, 2T. Sabri, 5E. Foy, 6S. Yagoubi, 7T. Henning, 8D. Salomon, 8G. Martinez-Criado
Astronomy & Astrophysics 587, A144    Link to Article [http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527708]
1Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS), CNRS, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
e-mail: lisseth.gavilan@ias.u-psud.fr
2Laboratory Astrophysics and Cluster Physics Group of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the Friedrich Schiller University & Institute of Solid State Physics, Helmholtzweg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
3Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France
4Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
5LAPA-IRAMAT, NIMBE, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
6LEEL, NIMBE, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
7Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
8European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France

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Martian meteorite Tissint records unique petrogenesis among the depleted shergottites

1A. Basu Sarbadhikari,2E. V. S. S. K. Babu,2T. Vijaya Kumar,3H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane
Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences        Link to Article [DOI: 10.1111/maps.12684]
1Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
2National Geophysical Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Hyderabad, India
3Hassan II University Casablanca, Faculty of Sciences, GAIA Laboratory, Maârif, Casablanca, Morocco
Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons

Tissint, a new unaltered piece of Martian volcanic materials, is the most silica-poor and Mg-Fe-rich igneous rock among the “depleted” olivine-phyric shergottites. Fe-Mg zoning of olivine suggests equilibrium growth (<0.1 °C h−1) in the range of Fo80–56 and olivine overgrowth (Fo55–18) through a process of rapid disequilibrium (~1.0–5.0 °C h−1). The spatially extended (up to 600 μm) flat-top Fe-Mg profiles of olivine indicates that the early-stage cooling rate of Tissint was slower than the other shergottites. The chemically metastable outer rim of olivine (<Fo55) consists of oscillatory phosphorus zoning at the impact-induced melt domains and grew rapidly compared to the early to intermediate-stage crystallization of the Tissint bulk. High-Ca pyroxene to low-Ca pyroxene and high-Ca pyroxene to plagioclase ratios of Tissint are more comparable to the enriched basaltic and enriched olivine-phyric shergottites. Dominance of augite over plagioclase induced augite to control the Ca-buffer in the residual melt suppressing the plagioclase crystallization, which also caused a profound effect on the Al-content in the late-crystallized pyroxenes. Mineral chemical stability, phase-assemblage saturation, and pressure–temperature path of evolution indicates that the parent magma entered the solidus and left the liquidus field at a depth of 40–80 km in the upper mantle. Petrogenesis of Tissint appears to be similar to LAR 06319, an enriched olivine-phyric shergottite, during the early to intermediate stage of crystallization. A severe shock-induced deformation resulted in remelting (10–15 vol%), recrystallization (most Fe-rich phases), and exhumation of Tissint in a time scale of 1–8 yr. Tissint possesses some distinct characteristics, e.g., impact-induced melting and deformation, forming phosphorus-rich recrystallization rims of olivine, and shock-induced melt domains without relative enrichment of LREEs compared to the bulk; and shared characteristics, e.g., modal composition and magmatic evolution with the enriched basaltic shergottites, evidently reflecting unique mantle source in comparison to the clan of the depleted members.