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Petrology and geochemistry of the unbrecciated achondrite Northwest Africa 1240 (NWA 1240): An HED parent body impact melt

Jambon, A.
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Bohn, A.
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Blichert-Toft, J.
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2003
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta

NWA 1240 is an unusual eucrite recently recovered in Morocco as a single stone of 98 g. It is an unbrecciated greenish-brown rock nearly devoid of fusion crust. It displays porphyritic texture consisting of skeletal hollow low-Ca pyroxene phenocrysts set in a variolitic (fan-spherulitic) mesostasis of fine elongate pyroxene and plagioclase crystals. Minor phases are skeletal chromite, iron, silica, troilite, ilmenite and minute amounts of phosphate and fayalite. Pyroxenes are unequilibrated and show one of the widest ranges of composition so far described for a eucrite, from En(76.0)Wo(1.9)FS(22.1) to compositions nearly devoid of Mg (unusual ferrosilite and Fe-augite symplectites and possibly pyroxferroite). Plagioclase crystals contain significant amounts of Fe and Mg, which are possibly controlled by the Ca(Mg,Fe2+)Si3O8 plagioclase component.

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DOI
10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00092-9
Web of Science ID

WOS:000186052600013

Author(s)
Jambon, A.
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Bohn, A.
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Blichert-Toft, J.
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Sautter, V.
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Gopel, C.
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Gillet, P.  
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Boudouma, O.
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Keller, F.
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Barrat, J.A.
Date Issued

2003

Published in
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
Volume

67

Start page

3959

End page

3970

Subjects

Early Solar-System

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Martian Meteorite

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Antarctic Eucrites

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Basaltic Eucrites

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Chemistry

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Diogenites

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Howardite

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Genesis

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Crystallization

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Differentiation

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OTHER

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September 29, 2011
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