Yellow impact glass from the K/T boundary at Beloc (Haiti): XANES determination of the Fe oxidation state and implications for formation conditions

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 981-986

  Giuli, Gabriele ^a   Eeckhout, Sigrid Griet ^b   Koeberl, Christian ^c   Pratesi, Giovanni ^d,e   Paris, Eleonora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e Museo di Scienze Planetarie della Provincia di Prato   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 54449096254     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2008.tb01093.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bence A. E. and Albee A. L. 1968. Empirical correction factors for the electron microanalysis of silicates and oxides. Journal of Geology 76:382-402.
2. Blum J. D. and Chamberlain C. P. 1992. Oxygen isotope constraints on the origin of impact glasses from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Science 257:1104-1107.
3. Blum J. D., Chamberlain C. P., Hingston M. P., Koeberl C., Marin L. E., Schuraytz B. C., and Sharpton V. L. 1993. Isotopic comparison of K/T boundary impact glass with melt rock from the Chicxulub and Manson impact structures. Nature 364:325-327.
4. Bohor B. F. and Glass B. P. 1995. Origin and diagenesis of K/T impact spherules - From Haiti to Wyoming and beyond. Meteoritics 30:182-198.
5. Brown G. E., Farges F., and Calas G. 1995. X-ray scattering and X-ray spectroscopy studies of silicate melts. In Structure, dynamics and properties of silicate melts, edited by Stebbins J. F., McMillan P. F., and Dingwell D. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, vol. 32. pp. 317-410.
6. Calas G. and Petiau J. 1983. Coordination of iron in oxide glasses through high-resolution K-edge spectra: Information from the pre-edge. Solid State Communications 48:625-629.
7. Chaussidon M., Sigurdsson H., and Metrich N. 1996. Sulfur and boron isotope study of high-Ca impact glasses from the K/T boundary: Constraints on source rocks. In The Cretaceous-Tertiary event and other catastrophes in Earth's history, edited by Fastovsky D., Ryder G., and Gartner S. GSA Special Paper 307. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, pp. 253-262.
8. Farges F. 2001. Crystal-chemistry of Fe in natural grandidierites: A XAFS spectroscopy study at the Fe K-edge. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 28:619-629.
9. Gauthier C., Solé V. A., Signorato R., Goulon J., and Moguiline E. 1999. The ESRF beamline ID26: X-ray absorption on ultra dilute sample. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 6:164-166.
10. Giuli G., Pratesi G., Paris E., and Cipriani C. 2002. Fe local structure in tektites and impactites by EXAFS and high-resolution XANES spectroscopy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66: 4347-4353.
11. Giuli G., Paris E., Pratesi G., Koeberl C., and Cipriani C. 2003. Iron oxidation state in the Fe-rich layer and silica matrix of Libyan Desert Glass: A high-resolution XANES study. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38:1181-1186.
12. Giuli G., Eeckhout S. E., Paris E., Koeberl C., and Pratesi G. 2005. Iron oxidation state in impact glass from the K/T boundary at Beloc, Haiti, by high-resolution XANES spectroscopy. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40:1575-1580.
13. Izett G. A. 1991. Tektites in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary rocks on Haiti and their bearing on the Alvarez impact extinction hypothesis. Journal of Geophysical Research 96:20879-20905.
14. Koeberl C. 1992. Water content of glasses from the K/T boundary, Haiti: Indicative of impact origin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 56:4329-4332.
15. Koeberl C. and Sigurdsson H. 1992. Geochemistry of impact glasses from the K/T boundary in Haiti: Relation to smectites, and a new type of glass. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 56: 2113-2129.
16. Koeberl C., Sharpton V. L., Schuraytz B. C., Shirey S. B., Blum J. D., and Marin L. E. 1994. Evidence for a meteoritic component in impact melt rock from the Chicxulub structure. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 58:1679-1684.
17. Krause M. O. and Oliver J. H. 1979. Natural widths of atomic K and L levels, K alpha X-ray lines and several KLL auger lines. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 8: 329-338.
18. Kring D. A. and Boynton W. V. 1991. Altered spherules of impact melt and associated relic glass from the K/T boundary sediments in Haiti. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 55:1737-1742.
19. Oskarsson N., Helgason O., and Sigurdsson H. 1996. Oxidation state of iron in tektite glasses from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. In New developments regarding the K/T event and other catastrophes in Earth's history, edited by Ryder G., Fastovsky D., and Gartner S. GSA Special Paper 307. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America. pp. 445-452.
20. Premo W. R. and Izett G. A. 1992. Isotopic signature of black tektites from the K/T boundary on Haiti: Implications for the age and type of source material. Meteoritics 27:413-423.
21. Premo W. R., Izett G. A., and Meeker G. P. 1995. Major-element and isotopic compositions of relic tektites and glass-like shards from the K/ T boundary spherule bed at El Mimbral, Mexico. 26th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. pp. 1139-1140.
22. Sigurdsson H., D'Hondt S., Arthur M. A., Bralower T. J., Zachos J. C., van Fossen M., and Channell E. T. 1991 a. Glass from the Cretaceous/ Tertiary boundary in Haiti. Nature 349:482-487.
23. Sigurdsson H., Bonte P., Turpin L., Chaussidon M., Metrich N., Steinberg M., Pradel P., and D'Hondt S. 1991b. Geochemical constraints on source regions of Cretaceous/Tertiary impact glasses. Nature 353:839-842.
24. Sigurdsson H., D'Hondt S., and Carey S. 1992. The impact of the Cretaceous/Tertiary bolide on evaporite terrane and generation of major sulfuric acid aerosol. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 109:543-559.
25. Smit J., Montanari A., Swinburne N. H. M., Alvarez W., Hildebrand A. R., Margolis S. V., Claeys Ph., Lowrie W., and Asaro F. 1992. Tektite-bearing, deep-water elastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico. Geology 20:99-103.
26. Solé A. V., Gauthier C., Goulon J., and Natali F. 1999. Undulator QEXAFS at the ESRF beamline ID26. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 6:174-175. i
27. 39Ar ages of 65.0 million years ago from Chicxulub crater melt rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary tektites. Science 257:954-958.
28. Wilke M., Farges F., Petit P. E., Brown G. E., and Martin F. 2001. Oxidation state and coordination of Fe in minerals: An Fe K-XANES spectroscopic study. American Mineralogist 86:714-730.