Evidence of metasomatism in the interior of Vesta

Ai-Cheng Zhang; Noriyuki Kawasaki; Huiming Bao; Jia Liu; Liping Qin; Minami Kuroda; Jian-Feng Gao; Li-Hui Chen; Ye He; Naoya Sakamoto; Hisayoshi Yurimoto

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15049-7

Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Evidence of metasomatism in the interior of Vesta

Ai-Cheng Zhang,
Noriyuki Kawasaki,
Huiming Bao,
Jia Liu,
Liping Qin,
Minami Kuroda,
Jian-Feng Gao,
Li-Hui Chen,
Ye He,
Naoya Sakamoto,
Hisayoshi Yurimoto

Affiliations

Ai-Cheng Zhang: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research and School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Noriyuki Kawasaki: Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University
Huiming Bao: Department of Geology & Geophysics, Louisiana State University
Jia Liu: CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology
Liping Qin: CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology
Minami Kuroda: Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University
Jian-Feng Gao: State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Li-Hui Chen: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research and School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Ye He: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research and School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Naoya Sakamoto: Isotope Imaging Laboratory, Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University
Hisayoshi Yurimoto: Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15049-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The authors here analyse the petrology of the meteorite NWA 8321 (parent body Vesta). They find sulfidation processes of olivine suggesting metasomatism in the Vestan interior and a partial melting origin for the host noritic diogenite.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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