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The oxygen isotope composition of diogenites: Evidence for early global melting on a single, compositionally diverse, HED parent body

Authors :
Jean-Alix Barrat
Akira Yamaguchi
J. M. Gibson
Ian A. Franchi
Edward Scott
William F. Bottke
Richard C. Greenwood
PSSRI
The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU)
Domaines Océaniques (LDO)
Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers-Institut d'écologie et environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
National Institute of Polar Research [Tokyo] (NiPR)
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP)
University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM)
Southwest Research Institute [Boulder] (SwRI)
Source :
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Elsevier, 2014, 390, pp.165-174. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.011⟩
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2014.

Abstract

International audience; Oxygen isotope measurements of a suite of 22 diogenites demonstrate that they have a restricted range of Δ17O values: View the MathML source−0.246±0.014(2σ). These results indicate that the diogenites form a single population consistent with a single parent body source, rather than multiple sources as has recently been suggested. Our previously published analysis of eucrites and cumulate eucrites (n=34n=34) give very similar results to the diogenites, with View the MathML sourceΔO17=−0.241±0.016‰(2σ) and confirm that diogenites and eucrites are from the same parent asteroid. The isotopic homogeneity displayed by diogenites, eucrites and cumulate eucrites, provides strong evidence for an early large-scale melting event on the HED parent body, possibly resulting in the formation of a magma ocean. The paradox, whereby diogenites show isotopic evidence in favor of global melting, but also geochemical features indicative of late stage interaction with eucritic crust, may reflect a rapid transition from global to serial magmatism on their parent body. The fact that all the lithologically varied HED units have an isotopically homogeneous composition supports the proposal that they are derived from a single, large, diverse asteroid, most likely 4 Vesta. The recent suggestion that the HEDs are not from Vesta, but instead represent material from the same asteroidal source as the main-group pallasites and IIIAB irons can be excluded by our oxygen isotope data.

Details

ISSN :
0012821X
Volume :
390
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....c56fe9c68cf7b0c85fe53e35eae56881