Extreme oxygen isotope anomaly with a solar origin detected in meteoritic organics

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 165-168

  Hashizume, Ko ^a   Takahata, Naoto ^b   Naraoka, Hiroshi ^c   Sano, Yuji ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CHONDRITE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHOTODEGRADATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79952157801     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1070     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Clayton, R. N. Oxygen isotopes in meteorites. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 21, 115-149 (1993). (Pubitemid 24420978)
2. Clayton, R. N. in Meteorites, Comets and Planets (ed. Davis, A. M.) 129-142 (Treatise on Geochemistry, Vol. 1, Elesevier-Pergamon, 2005).
3. Thiemens, M. H. Mass-independent isotope effects in planetary atmospheres and the early solar system. Science 283, 341-345 (1999).
4. Clayton, R. N. Self-shielding in the solar nebula. Nature 415, 860-861 (2002). (Pubitemid 34174739)
5. Marcus, R. A. Mass-independent isotope effect in the earliest processed solids in the solar system: A possible mechanism. J. Chem. Phys. 121, 8201-8211 (2004).
6. Lyons, J. R. et al. Timescales for the evolution of oxygen isotope composition in the solar nebula. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 4998-5017 (2009).
7. Nguyen, A. N. et al. Characterization of presolar silicate and oxide grains in primitive carbonaceous chondrites. Astrophys. J. 656, 1223-1240 (2007).
8. 16O-rich isotopic composition for the protosolar nebula. Nature 434, 619-622 (2005). (Pubitemid 40488549)
9. Hashizume, K. & Chaussidon, M. Two oxygen isotopic components with extra-selenial origins observed among lunar metallic grains-in search for the solar wind component. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 3038-3054 (2009).
10. Yurimoto, H. & Kuramoto, K. Molecular cloud origin for the oxygen isotope heterogeneity in the solar system. Science 305, 1763-1766 (2004). (Pubitemid 39249641)
11. Alexander, C. M. O'D. et al. The origin of macromolecular organic matter: A carbon and nitrogen isotope study. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33, 603-622 (1998). (Pubitemid 28510426)
12. Pearson, V. K., Sephton, M. A. & Gilmour, I. Molecular and isotopic indicators of alteration in CR chondrites. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 41, 1291-1303 (2006). (Pubitemid 44480444)
13. Martins, Z., Alexander, C. M. O'D., Orzechowska, G. E., Fogel, M. L. & Ehrenfreund, P. Indigenous amino acids in primitive CR meteorites. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 42, 2125-2136 (2007).
14. Busemann, H. et al. Interstellar chemistry recorded in organic matter from primitive meteorites. Science 312, 727-730 (2006).
15. Nakamura-Messenger, K., Messenger, S., Keller, L. P., Clemett, S. J. & Zolensky, M. E. Organic globules in the Tagish Lake meteorite: Remnants of the protosolar disk. Science 314, 1439-1442 (2006). (Pubitemid 44871947)
16. Floss, C. & Stadermann, F. J. High abundances of circumstellar and interstellar C-anomalous phases in the primitive CR3 chondrites QUE99177 and MET00426. Astrophys. J. 697, 1242-1255 (2009).
17. Remusat, L. et al. Proto-planetary disk chemistry recorded by D-rich organic radicals in carbonaceous chondrites. Astrophys. J. 698, 2087-2092 (2009).
18. Cody, G. D. & Alexander, C. M. O'D. NMR studies of chemical structural variation of insoluble organic matter from different carbonaceous chondrite groups. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69, 1085-1097 (2005). (Pubitemid 40280668)
19. Halbout, J., Robert, F. & Javoy, M. Hydrogen and oxygen isotope compositions in kerogen from the Orgueil meteorite-Clues to a solar origin. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 54, 1453-1462 (1990).
20. Young, E. D. & Russell, S. S. Oxygen reservoirs in the early solar nebula inferred from an Allende CAI. Science 282, 452-455 (1998). (Pubitemid 28483667)
21. Oba, Y. & Naraoka, H. Elemental and isotope behavior of macromolecular organic matter from CM chondrites during hydrous pyrolysis. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 44, 943-953 (2009).
22. Aléon, J., Robert, F., Duprat, J. & Derenne, S. Extreme oxygen isotope ratios in the early Solar System. Nature 437, 385-388 (2005). (Pubitemid 41613496)
23. Visser, R., van Dishoeck, E. F. & Black, J. H. The photodissociation and chemistry of CO isotopologues: Applications to interstellar clouds and circumstellar disks. Astron. Astrophys. 503, 323-343 (2009).
24. Hashizume, K., Chaussidon, M., Marty, B. & Terada, K. Protosolar carbon isotopic composition: Implications for the origin of meteoritic organics. Astrophys. J. 600, 480-484 (2004). (Pubitemid 38361613)
25. Aléon, J. & Robert, F. Interstellar chemistry recorded by nitrogen isotopes in Solar System organic matter. Icarus 167, 424-430 (2004). (Pubitemid 38426355)
26. Rodgers, S. D. & Charnley, S. B. Nitrogen superfractionation in dense cloud cores. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 385, L48-L52 (2008).
27. Chakraborty, S., Ahmed, M., Jackson, T. L. & Thiemens, M. H. Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO. Science 321, 1328-1331 (2008).
28. Sakamoto, N. et al. Remnants of the early solar system water enriched in heavy oxygen isotopes. Science 317, 231-233 (2007). (Pubitemid 47076195)
29. 18O from solar wind particles in the lunar regolith. Nature 440, 776-778 (2006).