Iddingsite in the Nakhla meteorite : TEM study of mineralogy and texture of pre-terrestrial (Martian?) alterations

Author: Treiman, Allan H.
Published: JAN 1, 1991.
Physical Description: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators: Gooding, James L.

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Rusty-colored veinlets and patches in the Nakhla meteorite, identified as iddingsite, are pre-terrestrial. The rusty material is iddingsite (smectites + hematite + ferrihydrite); like terrestrial iddingsites, it probably formed during low-temperature interaction of olivine and water. Fragments of rusty material with host olivine were removed from thin sections of Nakhla with a tungsten needle. Fragments were embedded in epoxy, microtomed to 100 nanometers thickness, and mounted on Cu grids. Phase identifications were by Analytical Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis (EM/EDX) standardless chemical analyses (for silicates), electron diffraction (hematite and ferrihydrite), and lattice fringe imaging. This iddingsite in Nakhla is nearly identical to some formed on Earth, suggesting similar conditions of formation on the Shergottites-Nakhlites-Chassigny (SNC) meteorite parent planet. A more detailed account of the results is presented.

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Document ID: 19920003711.
Accession ID: 92N12929.
Lunar and Planetary Inst., Abstracts for the 54th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society; p 231.

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