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Title: Petrogenesis, alteration, and shock history of intermediate shergottite Northwest Africa 7042: Evidence for hydrous magmatism on Mars?

Journal Article · · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
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  1. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada); University of Toronto, ON (Canada)
  2. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada)
  3. University of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada)
  4. University of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Scripps Institute of Oceanography
  5. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada); University of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada)
  6. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
  7. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  8. Queen's University, Kingston, ON (Canada)

We report Northwest Africa (NWA) 7042 is an intermediate, permafic shergottite consisting of two generations of zoned olivine (early olivine Fo41-76, and late-stage olivine Fo46-56), complexly zoned pyroxene (En35-64Fs22-46Wo5-34), maskelynitized feldspar and shock melt (An5-30Ab16-61Or1-47), and accessory merrillite, apatite, ilmenite, titanomagnetite, Fe-Cr-Ti spinels, pyrrhotite, and baddeleyite. The olivine grains have been pervasively altered resulting in orange-brown stained cores with dark-brown margins, surrounded by significantly less altered overgrowth rims. This textural relationship suggests that the alteration of the cores took place at magmatic temperatures prior to crystallization of the rims on Mars. While this type of olivine alteration is rare in shergottites, it is similar to deuterically altered olivine in basalts and gabbros on Earth, caused by residual water-rich magmatic fluids. Launch-generated shock veins in NWA 7042 crosscut and displace several of the altered olivine grains indicating that the alteration occurred before ejection of the meteorite from Mars. However, NWA 7042 has also been subjected to extensive terrestrial weathering, with terrestrial calcite/barite veins occurring throughout the sample. Transmission electron microscopy analysis of the olivine alteration also reveals an absence of high-temperature phases typically associated with hydrous deuteric alteration on Earth, complicating our interpretation. The potential presence of deuterically altered olivine in NWA 7042 has significant implications, as it is the third martian meteorite where deuteric alteration of olivine has been observed (the others being NWA 10416, ALH 77005). The different mantle sources for the parental melts of these three meteorites would suggest many, if not all martian mantle reservoirs have the potential to produce water-rich magmas.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Hatch Foundation; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830; NNX16AR95G
OSTI ID:
1639327
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-152794
Journal Information:
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 283; ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher:
Elsevier; The Geochemical Society; The Meteoritical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 2 works
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