The petrological and mineralogical characteristics of Eucrite NWA 11592 and the study on the genesis of the Fe-rich olivine veins
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    Vesta is the largest silicate asteroid in the solar system, and its rock samples (HED meteorites) are among the oldest magmatic rocks in the solar system, possibly recording important information about the earliest geological fluid activities of terrestrial planets. For the first time in this work, a thicker and longer Fe-rich olivine vein was found in a piece of unbreccia equilibrium Eucrite NWA 11592. Through detailed research of petrographic and geochemical characteristics of the NWA 11592 meteorite, NWA 11592 is classified as basaltic unbreccia Eucrite, with an impact metamorphism degree of at least S4 and a thermal metamorphism degree of type 6. The Fe-rich olivine veins in NWA 11592 is most likely to be the precipitation products of H2O-bearing fluids along the fractures. The reaction system should be open and relatively oxidized (fO2 up to IW+0.9), and it should occur at a burial depth of > 4 km in the shallow crust of Vesta. The infiltration of H2O-bearing fluids not only occurs more on the surface or near the surface of Vesta, but may also occur in the shallow crust of Vesta's interior.

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黄丽霖,温日强,缪秉魁,陈国柱,许胜才,2022,钙长辉长无球粒陨石NWA 11592的岩石矿物学特征及富铁橄榄石脉成因研究[J].岩石矿物学杂志,41(4):746~758. HUANG Li-lin, WEN Ri-qiang, MIAO Bing-kui, CHEN Guo-zhu, XU Sheng-cai,2022,The petrological and mineralogical characteristics of Eucrite NWA 11592 and the study on the genesis of the Fe-rich olivine veins[J]. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica,41(4):746~758.

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  • Received:October 19,2021
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  • Online: July 18,2022
  • Published: July 25,2022
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