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The Effect of Aqueous Alteration and Metamorphism in the Survival of Presolar Silicate Grains in Chondrites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez  and
Jürgen Blum
Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez*
Affiliation:
Institut of Space Sciences (CSIC), Campus UAB, Facultat de Ciències, Torre C5-parell-2a, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Edif. Nexus, c/Gran Capità, 2-4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Jürgen Blum
Affiliation:
Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 3, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
*
DCorresponding author. Email: trigo@ieec.uab.es
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Relatively small amounts (typically between 2 and 200 ppm) of presolar grains have been preserved in the matrices of chondritic meteorites. The measured abundances of the different types of grains are highly variable from one chondrite to another, but are higher in unequilibrated chondrites that have experienced little or no aqueous alteration and/or metamorphic heating than in processed meteorites. A general overview of the abundances measured in presolar grains (particularly the recently identified presolar silicates) contained in primitive chondrites is presented. Here we will focus on the most primitive chondrite groups, as typically the highest measured abundances of presolar grains occur in primitive chondrites that have experienced little thermal metamorphism. Looking at the most aqueously altered chondrite groups, we find a clear pattern of decreasing abundance of presolar silicate grains with increasing levels of aqueous alteration. We conclude that measured abundances of presolar grains in altered chondrites are strongly biased by their peculiar histories. Scales quantifying the intensity of aqueous alteration and shock metamorphism in chondrites could correlate with the content of presolar silicates. To do this it would be required to infer the degree of destruction or homogenization of presolar grains in the matrices of primitive meteorites. To get an unbiased picture of the relative abundance of presolar grains in the different regions of the protoplanetary disk where first meteorites consolidated, future dedicated studies of primitive meteorites, IDPs, and collected materials from sample-return missions (like e.g. the planned Marco Polo) are urgently required.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , 2009 , pp. 289 - 296
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2009

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