FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR A LOW U/PB, SOURCE IN THE MOON - U-TH-PB, SM-ND, AND AR-AR ISOTOPIC SYSTEMATICS OF LUNAR METEORITE YAMATO-793169

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TORIGOYEKITA, N
MISAWA, K
DALRYMPLE, GB
TATSUMOTO, M
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[1] US GEOL SURVEY,DENVER,CO 80225
[2] US GEOL SURVEY,MENLO PK,CA 94025
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10.1016/0016-7037(95)00154-9
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P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
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0708 ; 070902 ;
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The coarse-grained lunar meteorites, Yamato-793169 and Asuka-881757, represent a new type of low-Ti mare basalt. This paper reports the results of a U-Th-Pb, Sm-Nd, and Ar-Ar isotopic study of Yamato-793169 performed as part of a consortium studies of lunar basaltic meteorites. The isotopic study was carried out on a small sample (100 mg) so that only three density fractions could be separated. These fractions were leached with dilute acid in order to eliminate terrestrial Pb contamination. However, the leaching procedure did not completely remove this contamination in some fractions and also apparently caused a fractionation of elements (U, Th, Pb) due to preferential leaching effects, producing a secondary disturbance of the systematics. Furthermore, the Ar-Ar analyses indicate that the isotopic systematics in this meteorite might have been disturbed sometime later than 750 Ma. For these reasons, the ages obtained using different isotopic systems disagree with each other and a precise formation age could not be obtained for this meteorite. However, using what results there are, two reasonable interpretations can be made: (1) the Sm-Nd system yielded an age of 3.4 Ga that could be interpreted as the formation age, assuming that this system is possibly the least disturbed during the metamorphic event(s) that this meteorite experienced at least once, and that all other isotopic systems and their corresponding ages were disturbed, and (2) the U-Pb system yielded a nearly concordant age of 3.8 Ga that could be interpreted as the formation age and the Sm-Nd isotopic systematics were somehow disturbed. We prefer the second interpretation for the reasons discussed below. On a concordia diagram, the CDT (Canon Diablo troilite)-corrected U-Pb isotopic data yield a discordia line similar to the lunar catastrophic array, indicating that the source of the meteorite formed during early lunar differentiation (similar to 4.4 Ga) and that the basalt was generated near 3.9 Ga. Total Ar-Ar age on plagioclase is 3.26 Ga, which seems to be too old if the formation age is 3.4 Ga, because low temperature fractions lost large amounts of radiogenic Ar-40 during the late thermal event. If we assume a formation age of 3.8 Ga, the estimated source U-238/Pb-204 (mu) is 21.6 +/- 3.5 and epsilon(Nd) is 3.9 +/- 0.3. These results indicate that the source of Yamato-793169 is more depleted than Apollo 12 and 15 LT basalts, but less depleted than Asuka-881757. Therefore, Yamato-793169 may represent a new type of LT- or VLT-like mare basalt that is different from Asuka-881757. The wide variety of lead and neodymium isotopic characteristics among LT and VLT mare basalts indicate that the lunar mantle was very heterogeneous with respect to trace element abundances.
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