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Hu J, Asimow PD, Liu Y, Ma C. Shock-recovered maskelynite indicates low-pressure ejection of shergottites from Mars. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadf2906. [PMID: 37134156 PMCID: PMC10156110 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf2906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Diaplectic feldspathic glass, commonly known as maskelynite, is a widely used impact indicator, notably for shergottites, whose shock conditions are keys to their geochemistry and launch mechanism. However, classic reverberating shock recovery experiments show maskelynitization at higher shock pressures (>30 gigapascals) than the stability field of the high-pressure minerals found in many shergottites (15 to 25 gigapascals). Most likely, differences between experimental loading paths and those appropriate for martian impacts have created this ambiguity in shergottite shock histories. Shock reverberation yields lower temperature and deviatoric stress than single-shock planetary impacts at equivalent pressure. We report the Hugoniot equation of state of a martian analog basalt and single-shock recovery experiments, indicating partial-to-complete maskelynitization at 17 to 22 gigapascals, consistent with the high-pressure minerals in maskelynitized shergottites. This pressure explains the presence of intact magmatic accessory minerals, used for geochronology in shergottites, and offers a new pressure-time profile for modeling shergottite launch, likely requiring greater origin depth.
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- Jinping Hu
- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Evidence for a rosiaite-structured high-pressure silica phase and its relation to lamellar amorphization in quartz. Nat Commun 2023; 14:606. [PMID: 36739276 PMCID: PMC9899207 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36320-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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When affected by impact, quartz (SiO2) undergoes an abrupt transformation to glass lamellae, the planar deformation features (PDFs). This shock effect is the most reliable indicator of impacts and is decisive in identifying catastrophic collisions in the Earth´s record such as the Chicxulub impact. Despite the significance of PDFs, there is still no consensus how they form. Here, we present time-resolved in-situ synchroton X-ray diffraction data of single-crystal quartz rapidly compressed in a dynamic diamond anvil cell. These experiments provide evidence for the transformation of quartz at pressures above 15 GPa to lamellae of a metastable rosiaite (PbSb2O6)-type high-pressure phase with octahedrally coordinated silicon. This phase collapses during decompression to amorphous lamellae, which closely resemble PDFs in naturally shocked quartz. The identification of rosiaite-structured silica provides thus an explanation for lamellar amorphization of quartz. Furthermore, it suggests that the mixed phase region of the Hugoniot curve may be related to the progressive formation of rosiaite-structured silica.
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Morphology Tuned Pressure Induced Amorphization in VO2(B) Nanobelts. INORGANICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/inorganics10080122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) has drawn great attention since it was first observed in ice. This process depends closely on the crystal structure, the size, the morphology and the correlated pressurization environments, among which the morphology-tuned PIA remains an open question on the widely concerned mesoscale. In this work, we report the synthesis and high-pressure research of VO2(B) nanobelts. XRD and TEM were performed to investigate the amorphization process. The amorphization pressure in VO2(B) nanobelts(~30 GPa) is much higher than that in previous reported 2D VO2(B) nanosheets(~21 GPa), the mechanism is the disruption of connectivity at particular relatively weaker bonds in the (010) plane. These results suggest a morphology-tuned pressure-induced amorphization, which could promote the fundamental understanding of PIA.
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Hu J, Sharp TG. Formation, preservation and extinction of high-pressure minerals in meteorites: temperature effects in shock metamorphism and shock classification. PROGRESS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE 2022; 9:6. [PMID: 35059281 PMCID: PMC8732827 DOI: 10.1186/s40645-021-00463-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The goal of classifying shock metamorphic features in meteorites is to estimate the corresponding shock pressure conditions. However, the temperature variability of shock metamorphism is equally important and can result in a diverse and heterogeneous set of shock features in samples with a common overall shock pressure. In particular, high-pressure (HP) minerals, which were previously used as a solid indicator of high shock pressure in meteorites, require complex pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) histories to form and survive. First, parts of the sample must be heated to melting temperatures, at high pressure, to enable rapid formation of HP minerals before pressure release. Second, the HP minerals must be rapidly cooled to below a critical temperature, before the pressure returns to ambient conditions, to avoid retrograde transformation to their low-pressure polymorphs. These two constraints require the sample to contain large temperature heterogeneities, e.g. melt veins in a cooler groundmass, during shock. In this study, we calculated shock temperatures and possible P-T paths of chondritic and differentiated mafic-ultramafic rocks for various shock pressures. These P-T conditions and paths, combined with observations from shocked meteorites, are used to constrain shock conditions and P-T-t histories of HP-mineral bearing samples. The need for rapid thermal quench of HP phases requires a relatively low bulk-shock temperature and therefore moderate shock pressures below ~ 30 GPa, which matches the stabilities of these HP minerals. The low-temperature moderate-pressure host rock generally shows moderate shock-deformation features consistent with S4 and, less commonly, S5 shock stages. Shock pressures in excess of 50 GPa in meteorites result in melt breccias with high overall post-shock temperatures that anneal out HP-mineral signatures. The presence of ringwoodite, which is commonly considered an indicator of the S6 shock stage, is inconsistent with pressures in excess of 30 GPa and does not represent shock conditions different from S4 shock conditions. Indeed, ringwoodite and coexisting HP minerals should be considered as robust evidence for moderate shock pressures (S4) rather than extreme shock (S6) near whole-rock melting.
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- Jinping Hu
- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
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Gorelova LA, Pakhomova AS, Krivovichev SV, Dubrovinsky LS, Kasatkin AV. High pressure phase transitions of paracelsian BaAl 2Si 2O 8. Sci Rep 2019; 9:12652. [PMID: 31477776 PMCID: PMC6718520 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49112-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Three new polymorphs of aluminosilicate paracelsian, BaAl2Si2O8, have been discovered using synchrotron-based in situ high-pressure single crystal X-ray diffraction. The first isosymmetric phase transition (from paracelsian-I to paracelsian-II) occurs between 3 and 6 GPa. The phase transition is associated with the formation of pentacoordinated Al3+ and Si4+ ions, which occurs in a stepwise fashion by sequential formation of Al-O and Si-O bonds additional to those in AlO4 and SiO4 tetrahedra, respectively. The next phase transition occurs between 25 and 28 GPa and is accompanied by the symmetry change from monoclinic (P21/c) to orthorhombic (Pna21). The structure of paracelsian-III consists of SiO6 octahedra, AlO6 octahedra and distorted AlO4 tetrahedra, i.e. the transition is reconstructive and associated with the changes of Si4+ and Al3+ coordination, which show rather complex behaviour with the general tendency towards increasing coordination numbers. The third phase transition is observed between 28 and 32 GPa and results in the symmetry decreasing from Pna21 to Pn. The transition has a displacive character. In the course of the phase transformation pathway up to 32 GPa, the structure of polymorphs becomes denser: paracelsian-II is based upon elements of cubic and hexagonal close-packing arrangements of large O2− and Ba2+ ions, whereas, in the crystal structure of paracelsian-III and IV, this arrangement corresponds to 9-layer closest-packing with the layer sequence ABACACBCB.
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- Liudmila A Gorelova
- Department of Crystallography, Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, University Emb. 7/9, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Petra III, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Crystallography, Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, University Emb. 7/9, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russia.,Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersman str. 14, 184209, Apatity, Russia
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- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy pr. 18, 2, 119071, Moscow, Russia
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Sahle CJ, Rosa AD, Rossi M, Cerantola V, Spiekermann G, Petitgirard S, Jacobs J, Huotari S, Moretti Sala M, Mirone A. Direct tomography imaging for inelastic X-ray scattering experiments at high pressure. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2017; 24:269-275. [PMID: 28009566 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577516017100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A method to separate the non-resonant inelastic X-ray scattering signal of a micro-metric sample contained inside a diamond anvil cell (DAC) from the signal originating from the high-pressure sample environment is described. Especially for high-pressure experiments, the parasitic signal originating from the diamond anvils, the gasket and/or the pressure medium can easily obscure the sample signal or even render the experiment impossible. Another severe complication for high-pressure non-resonant inelastic X-ray measurements, such as X-ray Raman scattering spectroscopy, can be the proximity of the desired sample edge energy to an absorption edge energy of elements constituting the DAC. It is shown that recording the scattered signal in a spatially resolved manner allows these problems to be overcome by separating the sample signal from the spurious scattering of the DAC without constraints on the solid angle of detection. Furthermore, simple machine learning algorithms facilitate finding the corresponding detector pixels that record the sample signal. The outlined experimental technique and data analysis approach are demonstrated by presenting spectra of the Si L2,3-edge and O K-edge of compressed α-quartz. The spectra are of unprecedented quality and both the O K-edge and the Si L2,3-edge clearly show the existence of a pressure-induced phase transition between 10 and 24 GPa.
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- Ch J Sahle
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Physics, POB 64, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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Johnson JR. Thermal infrared spectroscopy of experimentally shocked anorthosite and pyroxenite: Implications for remote sensing of Mars. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1029/2001je001517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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