期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 273, 期 1-2, 页码 94-104出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.018
关键词
Hf-W model age; metal-silicate differentiation; accretion timescales
资金
- France-Chicago Center
- Packard Fellowship and NASA [NNG06GG75C, NNG05GG22G]
New high-precision W isotope measurements are presented for 33 iron meteorites from 8 magmatic groups (IC, IIAB, IID, IIIAB, IIIE, IIIF, I VA and IVB), 2 non-magmatic groups (IAB-IIICD and IIE), and one ungrouped iron (Deep Springs). All magmatic irons have epsilon W-182 values that are, within errors, equal to, or less radiogenic than, the Solar System initial of -3.47 +/- 0.20. A method was developed to correct the measured epsilon W-182 values of magmatic iron meteorites for the presence of cosmogenic effects produced during space exposure to galactic cosmic rays. The corrected data provide new constraints on the timing of metal-silicate differentiation in iron meteorite parent bodies, which must have taken place within a few million years (<2 to 6 My) of condensation of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs). Metal-silicate differentiation ages (from Hf-182-W-182 systematics) were combined with parent body sizes (from metallographic cooling rates) into a model of planetesimal heating by Al-26-decay, to constrain the accretion timescale of iron meteorite parent bodies. Accretion of iron meteorite parent bodies most likely occurred within 1.5 My of the formation of CAIs. The fast accretion times of iron meteorite parent bodies are consistent with dynamical models indicating that these objects may have originated in the terrestrial planet-forming region, where the accretion rates were high. Our W isotopic data for non-magmatic IAB-IIICD and HE irons provide new constraints for their formation mechanisms. In particular, they support formation of IAB-IIICD iron meteorites by melting during a single collision event dated at 4-7 My after formation of the Solar System. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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