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AMERICAN MINERALOGIST
卷 108, 期 4, 页码 686-694出版社
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2138/am-2022-8149
关键词
Tektite; shock-recovered tektite; impact conditions; Ti K edge XAFS; local structure of Ti
Heavy meteorite impacts on Earth’s surface produce natural glasses called tektites and impact glasses with various shapes and characteristics. Their formation conditions have been debated, and they are important in understanding planetary formation and evolution. By conducting experiments on a tektite, researchers found that shock compression and post-shock annealing affect the density and structure of the glass, but the local structures around titanium ions remain unchanged. The presence of different valance states of titanium ions in the glass provides insights into the formation conditions of impact-derived glasses.
Heavy meteorite impacts on Earth's surface produce melt and vapor that are quenched rapidly and scattered over wide areas as natural glasses with various shapes and characteristic chemistry, which are known as tektites and impact glasses. Their detailed formation conditions have long been debated using mineralogical and geochemical data and numerical simulations of impact melt formations. These impact processes are also related to the formation and evolution of planets. To unravel the formation conditions of impact-induced glasses, we performed shock recovery experiments on a tektite. Recovered samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy on the Ti K-edge. Results indicate that the densification by shock compression is subjected to post-shock annealing that alters the density and silicate-framework structures but that the local structures around octahedrally coordinated Ti ions remain in the quenched glass. The relationship between the average Ti-O distance and Ti K pre-edge centroid energy is found to distinguish the valance state of Ti ions between Ti4+ and Ti3+ in the glass. This relationship is useful in understanding the formation conditions of impact-derived natural glasses. The presence of Ti3+ in tektites constrains the formation conditions at extremely high temperatures or reduced environments. However, impact glasses collected near the impact sites do not display such conditions, but instead relatively mild and oxidizing formation conditions. These different formation conditions are consistent with the previous numerical results on the crater size dependence.
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