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Location, Location, Location: Monazite Behaviour During UHT Metamorphism and Melt Crystallization

Journal of Metamorphic Geology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Monazite is a robust mineral for recording the suprasolidus evolution of migmatites and granulites. However, monazite commonly has diverse compositions and yields variable dates in a single sample; understanding the controls on monazite behaviour and composition during partial melting and melt crystallization are not always straightforward ...
Chris Yakymchuk, Jessica Gareau, Michael Williams   +2 more
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Geoelectrochemistry-driven alteration of amino acids to derivative organics in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies

Nature Communications, 2022
Researchers at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) discovered a chemical process that can explain the very low amino acid abundances in aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrites, deepening our understanding on the Solar System chemical evolution.
Yamei Li, Norio Kitadai, Yasuhito Sekine, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Yuko Nakano, Kristin Johnson-Finn   +5 more
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New knowledge about shock events that affected the L‐chondrite parent body from two heavily shocked L6 meteorite finds

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We report new results from a study of shock‐related features in the L6 ordinary chondrites Northwest Africa (NWA) 4672 and NWA 12841. Our observations confirm the occurrence of eight high‐pressure (HP) minerals in each meteorite, namely, ringwoodite, majorite, akimotoite, wadsleyite, albitic jadeite, lingunite, tuite, and xieite.
I. Baziotis, L. Ferrière, C. Ma, J. Hu, D. Palles, P. D. Asimow   +5 more
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CHONDRITES-CLADICHNUS ICHNOCOENOSIS FROM THE DEEP-SEA DEPOSITS OF PIERFRANCESCO (CRETACEOUS; ITALY): OXYGEN- OR NUTRIENT-LIMITED?

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2022
The Italian Northern Apennines are acknowledged as the place where ichnology was born, but there is comparatively little work about their ichnological record. This study bridges this gap by describing two new ichnosites from the locality of Pierfrancesco,
ANDREA BAUCON, GIROLAMO LO RUSSO, CARLOS NETO DE CARVALHO, FABRIZIO FELLETTI   +3 more
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Noble gases and nitrogen in material from asteroid Bennu

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We report the elemental and isotopic abundances of all stable noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) in eight particles from asteroid Bennu returned by NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission. We also report nitrogen abundances and isotopic ratios that were analyzed alongside neon and argon in four additional Bennu particles.
B. Marty, L. Zimmermann, E. Füri, D. V. Bekaert, J. J. Barnes, A. N. Nguyen, H. C. Connolly, D. S. Lauretta   +7 more
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Solar System’s earliest solids as tracers of the accretion region of Ryugu and Ivuna-type carbonaceous chondrites

Communications Earth & Environment
Samples from the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu and CI (Ivuna-type) chondrites are dominated by low-temperature, aqueously formed secondary minerals, with rare occurrences of anhydrous primary minerals that formed in the high-temperature region of the solar
Noriyuki Kawasaki, Sota Arakawa, Yushi Miyamoto, Naoya Sakamoto, Daiki Yamamoto, Sara S. Russell, Hisayoshi Yurimoto   +6 more
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Graphite crystallinity and thermal record in Campo del Cielo IAB iron meteorite: A window into impact processing on a chondritic body

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The Campo del Cielo iron meteorite (IAB‐MG) provides a unique window into early solar system processes, particularly the formation and evolution of carbon phases in non‐magmatic iron meteorites. In this study, we conducted a systematic nanostructural investigation of three distinct graphite occurrences—cliftonite (type I), interstitial ...
Xiao Tian Deng, Hong Yi Chen, Yang Li, Jin Yu Zhang, Lan Fang Xie, Si Zhe Zhao, Zhuang Guo, Chen Li, Kai Rui Tai   +8 more
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Meteorites and the RNA World: Synthesis of Nucleobases in Carbonaceous Planetesimals and the Role of Initial Volatile Content

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Prebiotic molecules, fundamental building blocks for the origin of life, have been found in carbonaceous chondrites. The exogenous delivery of these organic molecules onto the Hadean Earth could have sparked the polymerization of the first RNA molecules ...
Klaus Paschek, Dmitry A. Semenov, Ben K. D. Pearce, Kevin Lange, Thomas K. Henning, Ralph E. Pudritz   +5 more
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Deuterium Isotope Fractionation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Meteorites as an Indicator of Interstellar/Protosolar Processing History

Life, 2022
The stable isotope composition of soluble and insoluble organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites can be used to determine the provenance of organic molecules in space.
Heather V. Graham, Jamie E. Elsila, Jason P. Dworkin, Scott A. Sandford, Jose C. Aponte   +4 more
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Rapid terrestrial weathering of the CI1 carbonaceous chondrite find Oued Chebeika 002

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Alteration of historic CI1 meteorite falls during their curation demonstrates the susceptibility of smectite‐rich carbonaceous chondrites to terrestrial exposure. The discovery of Oued Chebeika 002 in Morocco in June 2024 presents a unique opportunity to document the earliest stages of weathering of a CI1 find.
Martin R. Lee, Jasper Glazer
wiley   +1 more source