A new empirical cooling rate indicator for meteorites based on the size of the cloudy zone of the metallic phases

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 423-429

  Yang, C W ^a,c   Williams, D B ^b   Goldstein, J I ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

^c LG Chemical Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDY ZONE; COOLING RATE; METAL; TAENITE;

EID: 0030770003     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01285.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. ALBERTSEN J. F., NIELSEN H. P. AND BUCHWALD V. F. (1983) On the fine structure of meteoritical taenite/tetrataenite and its interpretation. Physica Scripta 27, 314-320.
2. BASTIN G. F., LOO F. J. J. V. AND HEIJLIGERS H. J. M. (1984) Evaluation of the use of Gaussian φp(ρz) curve in quantitative electron probe microanalysis: A new optimization. X-Ray Spectromelery 13, 91-97.
3. BUSECK P. R. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1969) Olivine compositions and cooling rates of pallasitic meteorites. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 80, 2141-2158.
4. CHUANG Y. Y., CHANG Y. A., SCHMID R. AND LIN J. C. (1986) Magnetic contributions to the thermodynamic functions of alloys and the phase equilibria of the Fe-Ni system below 1200K. Met. Trans. 17A, 1361-1372.
5. DOAN A. S., JR. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1969) The formation of phosphides in iron meteorites. In Meteorite Research (ed. P. M. Millman), pp. 763-779. Reidel, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
6. GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1969) The classification of iron meteorites. In Meteorite Research (ed. P. M. Millman), pp. 721-737. Reidel, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
7. GOLDSTEIN J. I. AND OGILVIE R. E. (1965) The growth of the Widmanstätten pattern in metallic meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 29, 893-920.
8. GOLDSTEIN J. I. AND SHORT J. M. (1967) The iron meteorites, their thermal history and parent bodies. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 31, 1733-1770.
9. GUIMARÄES J. R. C., DANON J., SCORZELLI R. B. AND AZEVEDO I. S. (1980) Phase stability on iron-nickel invar alloys. J. Phys. F: Met. Phys. 10, L197-L202.
10. HAACK H. AND RASMUSSEN K. L. (1994) Clues to non-linear thermal histories from metallographic cooling rate determinations (abstract). Meteoritics 29, 470-471.
11. HAACK H., SCOTT E. R. D. AND RASMUSSEN K. L. (1996) Thermal and shock history of mesosiderites and their large parent asteroid. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 2609-2619.
12. HERPFER M. A., LARIMER J. W. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1994) A comparison of metallographic cooling rate methods used in meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 58, 1353-1365.
13. HOLLAND-DUFFIELD C. E., WILLIAMS D. B. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1991) The structure and composition of metal particles in two type 6 ordinary chondrites. Meteoritics 26, 97-103.
14. JAGO R. A., CLARK P. E. AND ROSSITER P. L. (1982) The Santa Catharina meteorite and the equilibrium state of Fe-Ni alloys. Phys. Stat. Sol. 74a, 247-254.
15. LIN L. S., GOLDSTEIN J. I. AND WILLIAMS D. B. (1977) Analytical electron microscopy study of the plessite structure in the Carlton iron meteorite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 41, 1861-1874.
16. MCSWEEN H. Y., JR. (1987) Meteorites and Their Parent Planets. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, New York. 179 pp.
17. MOREN A. E. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1978) Cooling rate variations of group IVa iron meteorites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 40, 151-161.
18. MOREN A. E. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1979) Cooling rates of group IVa iron meteorites determined from a ternary Fe-Ni-P model. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 43, 182-196.
19. PAWLEY J. B. (1984) Low voltage scanning electron microscopy. J. Microscopy 136, 45-68.
20. POWELL B. N. (1969) Petrology and chemistry of mesosiderites-I. Textures and composition of nickel-iron. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 33, 789-810.
21. RASMUSSEN K. L. (1982) Determination of the cooling rates and nucleation histories of eight group IVA iron meteorites using local bulk Ni and P variation. Icarus 52, 444-453.
22. RASMUSSEN K. L. (1989a) Cooling rates of IIIAB iron meteorites. Icarus 80, 315-325.
23. RASMUSSEN K. L. (1989b) Cooling rates and parent bodies of iron meteorites from Group IIICD, IAB, and IVB. Physica Scripta 39, 410-416.
24. RASMUSSEN K. L., ULFF-MØLLER F. AND HAACK H. (1995) Revised cooling rates of group IVA iron meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 59, 3049-3059.
25. REUTER K. B., WILLIAMS D. B. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1988) Low temperature phase transformations in the metallic phases of iron and stonyiron meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 52, 617-626.
26. REUTER K. B., WILLIAMS D. B. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1989) Determination of the Fe-Ni phase diagram below 400 °C. Met. Trans. 20A, 719-725.
27. ROMIG A. D., JR. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1980) Determination of the Fe-Ni and Fe-Ni-P phase diagrams at low temperatures (700 to 300 °C). Met. Trans. 11A, 1151-1159.
28. SAIKUMAR V. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1988) An evalution of the methods to determine the cooling rates of iron meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 52, 715-726.
29. SCOTT E. R. D. (1973) The nature of dark-etching rims in meteoritic taenite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 37, 2283-2294.
30. SCOTT E. R. D. AND CLARKE R. S., JR. (1979) Identification of clear taenite in meteorites as ordered FeNi. Nature 281, 360-362.
31. SCOTT E. R. D., BREARLEY A. J., HAACK H. AND MCCOY T. J. (1994) Catastrophic fragmentation and reassembly of the parent body of the IVA iron and stony-iron meteorites (abstract). Meteoritics 29, 530-531.
32. SCOTT E. R. D., HAACK H. AND MCCOY T. J. (1996) Core crystallization and silicate-metal mixing in the parent body of the IVA iron and stonyiron meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 1615-1631.
33. WILLIS J. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1983) A three-dimensional study of metal grains in equilibrated ordinary chondrites. J. Geophys. Res. 88 (Suppl.), B287-B292.
34. WOOD J. A. (1964) Cooling rates and parent planets of several iron meteorites. Icarus 3, 429-459.
35. YANG C. W., WILLIAMS D. B. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1996) A revision of the Fe-Ni phase diagram at low temperatures (<400 °C). J. Phase Equilibria 17, 522-531.
36. YANG C. W., WILLIAMS D. B. AND GOLDSTEIN J. I. (1997) Low-temperature phase decomposition in metal from iron, stony-iron, and stony meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, in press.