¹Masashi Yoshida,¹Masaaki Miyahara,^1,2,3Hiroki Suga,^4,5Akira Yamaguchi,⁶Naotaka Tomioka,⁷Takeshi Sakai,^7,8Hiroaki Ohfuji,⁸Fumiya Maeda,^7,8,9Itaru Ohira,⁸Eiji Ohtani,¹⁰Seiji Kamada,¹¹Takuji Ohigashi,¹¹Yuichi Inagaki,¹²Yu Kodama,³Naohisa Hirao
Meteoritics & Planetary Science (in Press) Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13735]
¹Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Higashi, 739-8526 Japan
²Department of Earth and Planetary, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 Japan
³Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198 Japan
⁴National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, 190-8518 Japan
⁵Department of Polar Science, School of Multidisciplinary Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tokyo, 190-8518 Japan
⁶Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kochi, Nankoku, 783-8502 Japan
⁷Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, 790-8577 Japan
⁸Department of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578 Japan
⁹Department of Chemistry, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Tokyo, Toshima-ku, 171-8588 Japan
¹⁰Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578 Japan
¹¹UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585 Japan
¹²Marine Works Japan, Kochi, Nankoku, 783-8502 Japan
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The (plagioclase) lherzolitic shergottite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7397 consists of poikilitic and non-poikilitic lithologies. Coarse-grained low-Ca pyroxene oikocrysts enclose olivine and chromite grains in the poikilitic lithology. The major constituents of the non-poikilitic lithology are olivine, Ca-pyroxene, and plagioclase. Minor amounts of chromite, ilmenite, alkali feldspar, Ca-phosphate, and iron-sulfide are included in the non-poikilitic lithology. Most plagioclase grains in the non-poikilitic lithology have become maskelynite. A melt pocket occurs in the non-poikilitic lithology. Plagioclase in contact with the melt pocket has dissociated into zagamiite + stishovite. Apatite and merrillite entrained in the melt pocket have transformed into tuite. Olivine in contact with the melt pocket has dissociated into bridgmanite (almost vitrified) + ferroan-periclase. Alteration products, iron oxides and hydroxides, also occur in the dissociated olivine although it is not clear when the aqueous alteration occurred. The dissociation reactions of olivine and plagioclase into the high-pressure polymorphs (bridgmanite, ferroan-periclase, zagamiite, and stishovite) are found from lherzolitic shergottites for the first time. The estimated peak shock-pressure and -temperature conditions recorded in melt pockets of NWA 7397 are ˜23 GPa and 2,000 °C at least, respectively, based on the high-pressure mineral assemblages.