Homework #19
 

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Reading: Scott and Rajan (1981)

1. Create a table that summarizes for the four chondrites examined by the authors the following features: overall petrography of clasts and host, whether the meteorite is gas-rich or contains solar-flare tracks, metallographic cooling rates, and inferred origin.  You can use the following as a template:
 
 
meteorite petrographic description gas-rich or solar flare tracks? metallographic cooling rates inference
Weston H3 to "7" clasts set in H4 host; latter actually a mixture of equilibrated & unequilibrated material yes, both 10-1000 K/Ma at 800-600 K cooled at different depths before compaction
Fayetteville        
Mezo-Madaras        
Bhola        

 

2. What do the presence of solar-flare tracks or high gas contents imply about where in the parent body some of these chondrites once resided?
 
 

3.  How do the data of the authors and that shown in Fig. 10 argue against a simple onion skin model for the parent bodies of the ordinary chondrites?
 
 

4. There are two models consistent with the data presented by the authors, and both involve collisions after the petrographic types of chondrites were established.  (a) What are these two models?  (b) Can you think of any way to discriminate between these two models?