Precious metal enrichment during impacts on the Moon

1,2,3Yash Srivastava, 2James M. D. Day, 4Akira Yamaguchi, 1Amit Basu Sarbadhikari
Communications Earth & Environment (in Press)
Open Access Link to Article [DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-03046-x]
1Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
2Scripps Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
3Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
4National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan

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Simlipal Structure: An Excellent Geoheritage Site and a Probable Impact Structure

1Gaurav Joshi, 1Satyendra Kumar, 1Anuja Sreejayan, 2Satadru Bhattacharya, 3Mamilla Venkateshwarlu, 4Dewashish Upadhyay, 1Amar Agarwal
Geoheritage (in Press) Link to Article [DOI: 10.1007/s12371-026-01476-3]
1Applied Structural Geology Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, 208016, India
2Planetary Sciences Division, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, 380 015, India
3CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Telangana, Hyderabad, 500007, India
4Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302, India

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K, Rb, Ge, and Cu isotopes in Oued Chebeika 002 compared with CI chondrites, Ryugu, and Bennu

1D. S. Grewal, 2N. X. Nie, 3B. Luais, 2Z. J. Zhang, 3Q. Ahmad, 4A. Vazquez Ochoa, 4P. Ni
Geochemical Perspectives Letters (in Press)
Open Access Link to Article [DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2618]
1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, 06511, CT, United States
2CAT Lab, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, MA, United States
3Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRPG, Nancy, F-54000, France
4Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095, CA, United States

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Formation and Evolution of Spinel Anorthosite on the Moon: Experiment and Observation on Lunar Highland Meteorites Dhofar 025, Dhofar 311, and NWA 11303

1,2L. A. Lakhmanova, 1S. I. Demidova, 1,3V. G. Butvina, 3M. A. Golunova, 2,4P. Y. Plechov, 3P. G. Bukhtiyarov, 3K. V. Van, 1G. S. Nikolaeva
Geochemistry International, 64, 1–16
Open Access Link to Article [DOI: 10.1134/S0016702925600786]
1Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991 Russia
2Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 Russia
3Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432 Russia
4Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Moscow, 119071 Russia

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Variably shock-compacted chondrites: Deformation–thermal histories, large differences in mineral deformation response, and implications for lithification

1Alex M. Ruzicka, 2,3Jon M. Friedrich, 1Richard C. Hugo, 4Robert J. Macke, 1Daniel Sheikh, 1Melinda Hutson
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, (in Press), 1–36
Open Source Link to Article [DOI: 10.1111/maps.70246]

1Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Portland State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society—Earth and Planetary Sciences Academic Area, Portland, Oregon, USA
2Department of Chemistry, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA
3Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA
4Vatican Observatory, Vatican City State
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Eight different H, L, and LL chondrites with 11 lithologies were studied and showgood evidence for progressive shock effects and compaction. In weakly shocked chondrites(Baszkόwka, Bjurb ¨ole, Saratov, NWA 7298 Lithology A and C), silicates were dominantlyfractured, troilite and metal were more deformed than olivine and fluidized, and estimatedstresses were 4–7 GPa. In strongly shocked chondrites (NWA 7298 Lithology B, NWA11315 Lithology A and B, Alfianello, NWA 8709, NWA 4860), olivine grains display moreplastic deformation than in weakly shocked chondrites and were ultimately recrystallized;troilite, some metal, and some bulk areas were melted; and estimated stresses were >7 GPa.Three settings for lithification are inferred: (A) initial lithification during accretion of warmchondrule aggregates, (B) later lithification in warm, metamorphosing parent bodies thatwere being affected by mainly low-velocity collisions, and (C) final lithification in cool parentbodies after the waning of metamorphic heat that were being affected by higher velocitycollisions. Thus, collisions together with heat of different types (accretionary, metamorphic,and shock-related) were probably the main ways in which unmelted planetesimals werelithified. Impact-fluidized metal and troilite may have acted as important lithification bindingagents even in weak shock events.

Troilite and its assemblages from enstatite-rich meteorites at the nanoscale

1,2Noemi Mészárosová, 1,2Roman Skála, 3Mariana Klementová, 3Lukáš Palatinus, 4Jozef Veselý, 4Petr Harcuba
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, (in Press), 1–14 Link to Article [DOI: 10.1111/maps.70262]

1Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague 2, Czech Republic
2Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 6 – Lysolaje, Czech Republic
3Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 8, Czech Republic
4Department of Physics of Materials, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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A transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study of four troilite grains fromenstatite chondrites (Y-691, Y-791790, Y-86004, A-881314) and two grains from aubrites(Y-793592, Mayo Belwa) addressed their crystal structures and nanoscale mineralogicalrelationships. The crystal structure of troilite in enstatite-rich meteorites is predominantlyconsistent with the space group P62c, except for the FeS phase from Mayo Belwa, whichexhibits a complex modulated structure consistent with a trilling of the modulated NCpyrrhotite superstructure. TEM energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (TEM-EDS) analysesconfirmed the incorporation of chromium and titanium into the troilite crystal structure,even in samples containing nanometer-sized daubr´eelite exsolution lamellae (A-881314, Y-793592). Nanometer-sized inclusions of (Mn,Mg,Fe)S monosulfide solid solution occur introilite in Y-791790. Crystallographic orientation relationships between troilite andassociated sulfide phases (daubr´eelite and keilite) indicate semi-coherent intergrowths at thenanoscale. The absence of nanometer-sized daubr´eelite in Y-86004 and Y-791790 suggestsrapid cooling of the Cr-Fe sulfide solution and quenching of the chemical composition ofthe phase stable above 700°C, consistent with the impact melt origin of these meteorites.Additional weak, diffuse diffractions observed in selected area electron diffraction patternsfor troilites from Y-86004, Y-791790, and Y-793592 are attributed to the development ofvacancy ordering with variable periodicity along the c-axis, corresponding to NC-typesuperstructures. The detailed nature of vacancy ordering and the contributions of Cr andTi substitution to the observed superstructure features remain unresolved and requirecomprehensive structure analysis.