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Two kinds of exsolution in chondritic olivine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

J. R. Ashworth
J. R. Ashworth*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Aston in Birmingham, Birmingham B4 7ET
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Summary

Transmission electron microscopy of several chondritic meteorites reveals exsolution products of two kinds in olivine. The coarser variety comprises particles that have nucleated heterogeneously on subgrain boundaries. Electron microprobe data confirm that these are chromite. The second variety, consisting of smaller precipitates distributed randomly, is interpreted as a homogeneously nucleated analogue of the first. It is potentially important as an indicator of cooling history. The aluminium-poor compositions of heterogeneously exsolved chromites suggest that some Cr may have entered tetrahedral sites in olivine during initial rapid crystallization from the melt.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 43 , Issue 328 , December 1979 , pp. 535 - 538
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1979

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