Formation of Carbonates in the Tatahouine Meteorite-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Formation of Carbonates in the Tatahouine Meteorite

Published:1998-04-17 Issue:5362 Volume:280 Page:412-414
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Barrat J. A.¹²³⁴,Gillet Ph.¹²³⁴,Lécuyer C.¹²³⁴,Sheppard S. M. F.¹²³⁴,Lesourd M.¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. J. A. Barrat, Université d'Angers, Laboratoire de Géologie, 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers Cedex, France.

2. Ph. Gillet, Institut Universitaire de France, and Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5570, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.

3. C. Lécuyer and S. M. F. Sheppard, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5570, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.

4. M. Lesourd, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Service Commun de Microscopie Electronique, Faculté de Medecine, Rue Haute de Reculée, 49045 Angers Cedex, France.

Abstract

The Tatahouine meteorite, in southern Tunisia, shows terrestrial contamination that developed during 63 years of exposure on Earth's surface. Samples collected on the day of the fall in 1931 contained fractures, with no secondary minerals, whereas samples collected in 1994 contain calcite aggregates (70 to 150 micrometers) and rod-shaped forms (100 to 600 nanometers in length and 70 to 80 nanometers in diameter) on the fractures. Carbon isotope analysis of the carbonates within the Tatahouine meteorite [δ 13 C = −2.0 per mil Pee Dee belemnite standard (PDB)] and the underlying ground (δ 13 C = −3.2 per mil PDB) confirm their terrestrial origin.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference14 articles.

1. Lacroix A., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris193, 305 (1931).

2. Oxygen isotope studies of achondrites

3. The Raman data were collected with a DILOR XY micro-Raman spectrometer. A 100× objective was used to focus the beam of an argon laser (λ = 514.5 nm) to give a spot of 2 μm on the sample.

4. M. Zolensky and H. Y. McSween Jr., in Meteorites and the Early Solar System, J. F. Kerridge and M. S. Matthews, Eds. (Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 1988), pp. 114–143; D. W. Mittlefehldt, Meteoritics 29, 214 (1994); J. L. Gooding, S. J. Wentworth, M. E. Zolensky, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52, 909 (1988); B. Masonet al., Smithson. Contrib. Earth Sci. 30, 17 (1992); Jull A. J. T., Eastoe C. J., Cloudt S., J. Geophys. Res. 102, 1663 (1997).

5. Isotopic analyses were performed on CO 2 gas extracted by a H 3 PO 4 acid technique with a VG-PRISM mass spectrometer. For the fracture-filling sample three chips without coating (total weight 30 mg) with a few filled microfractures were selected and leached with H 3 PO 4 acid for 12 hours yielding about 0.3 μmol of CO 2 .

Cited by 42 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Effect of terrestrial weathering on stable Sr and Ba isotope compositions of eucrites;Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta;2024-05

2. Epitaxial fluorapatite vein in Northwest Africa 998 host apatite: Clues on the geochemistry of late hydrothermal fluids on Mars;Meteoritics & Planetary Science;2023-07-11

3. Grain Size Effects on Visible and Near-infrared (0.35–2.5 μm) Laboratory Spectra of Ordinary Chondrite and HED Meteorites;The Planetary Science Journal;2023-03-01

4. Evolved components in the eucrite parent body: Records in the layered eucrite Northwest Africa 8021;Meteoritics & Planetary Science;2022-04-20

5. A 4,565-My-old andesite from an extinct chondritic protoplanet;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences;2021-03-08