Reading list for G446-546
Winter term 2024

Required readings for the course are available following login/password through Canvas at https://canvas.pdx.edu.

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Overview & classification

1. Krot A.N., K. Keil, E.R.D. Scott, C.A. Goodrich and M.K. Weisberg (2014) Classification of meteorites and their genetic relationships. In Treatise on Geochemistry, 2nd Ed., Elsevier, pp. 1-63. A reasonably comprehensive overview of classification, which provides the framework for meteorite research. Don't worry! We won't be reading the entire paper in detail (see the course website for details on what to skim), but this is probably the best overall reference on meteorite classification.


Asteroid-meteorite connection

1. Gaffey M.J., E.A. Cloutis, M.S. Kelley and K.L. Reed (2002) Mineralogy of asteroids. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. Binzel), pp. 183-204. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews how asteroid spectra are obtained and what info about mineralogy can be gleaned from it.


2. Burbine T.H., T.J. McCoy, A. Meibom, B. Gladman and K. Keil (2002) Meteoritic parent bodies: Their number and identification. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. Binzel), pp. 653-667. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews evidence for the number and identity of meteorite parent bodies and how meteorites are delivered to Earth.

Chondrules and CAIs

1. Hewins R.H. (1997) Chondrules. In Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 25, 61-83. A short review of evidence pertaining to chondrules and what they might tell us about the solar nebula.
 

2. MacPherson G. J., S.B. Simon, A.M. Davis, L. Grossman and A.N. Krot (2005) Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions: major unanswered questions. In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk (eds. A.N. Krot, E.R.D. Scott, and B. Reipurth), pp. 225-250. ASP Conference Series, vol. 341. Astronomical Society of the Pacific: San Francisco. A review of what we know and don’t know about CAIs.

 

3. Jones R.H., T. Lee, H.C. Connolly Jr., S.G. Love and H. Sheng (2000) Formation of chondrules and CAIs: Theory vs. observation. In Protostars and Planets IV (eds. V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, S.S. Russell), pp. 927-962. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews literature on nebular heat sources needed to account for chondrules & CAIs.

Volatility and metal fractionation in the solar nebula

1. Davis A. (2006) Volatile evolution and loss. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds. D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr.), pp. 295-307. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Summarizes the importance of volatility fractionation in the early solar system.
 

2. Wood J. (2005) The chondrite types and their origins. In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk (eds. A.N. Krot, E.R.D. Scott, and B. Reipurth), pp. 953-971. ASP Conference Series, vol. 341. Astronomical Society of the Pacific: San Francisco. Presents a model for forming chondrites and their constituents, including the nature of chemical fractionations.


Early timescales

1. Dauphas N. and M. Chaussidon (2011) A perspective from extinct radionuclides on a young stellar object: The sun and its accretion disk. In Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 39, 351-386. A timely review of the principles of short-lived radiochronology and important results.


2. Lugmair G.W. and A. Shukolyukov (2001) Early solar system events and timescales. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36, 1017-1026. A provocative paper that uses Al-Mg and Mn-Cr systems for CAIs, chondrules, and differentiated meteorites to derive a controversial model linking the latter two.


Metamorphism and water

1. Huss G.R., A.E. Rubin and J.N. Grossman (2006) Thermal metamorphism in chondrites. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds. D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr.), pp. 567-586. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Review of thermal metamorphism in relatively dry chondrites.

 

2. Brearley A. (2006) The action of water. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds. D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr.), pp. 587-624. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Review of aqueous alteration processes in chondritic meteorites.


Pre-solar grains and stellar nucleosynthesis

1. Clayton D.D. and L.R. Nittler (2004) Astrophysics with presolar stardust. In Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 42, 39-78. A review of pre-solar grains in meteorites and what they have to tell us about nucleosynthesis.


Organic matter in meteorites

1. Gilmour I. (2005) Structural and isotopic analysis of organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites. In Meteorites, Comets, and Planets (ed. A.M. Davis), Ch. 1.10, pp. 269-290. Elsevier: Amsterdam. Reviews highlights in recent studies of indigenous organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites.


Differentiation

1. McSween H.Y.Jr. (1989) Achondrites and igneous processes on asteroids. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 17, 119-140. A short review of some differentiated stony meteorites. Way out of date, but gives a snapshot of thinking at the time, shows how prevailing wisdom is ephemeral, and good for stimulating discussion.
 

2. Wasson J.T. (1985) Iron meteorites: Evidence for and against core origins. In Meteorites- Their Record of Early Solar-system History, Ch. IV, pp.76-99. W.H. Freeman & Co.: New York. Would also seem to be out-of-date, but provides a good discussion of planetary heat sources, igneous origin of iron meteorites and pallasites.


Thermal models of asteroids

1. McSween H.Y., Jr, A. Ghosh, R.E. Grimm, L. Wilson, E.D. Young (2002) Thermal evolution models of asteroids. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R.P. Binzel, pp. 559-571. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Discusses models to account for thermal metamorphism, aqueous alteration and melting & differentiation of meteorite parent bodies.


Impacts and collisions

1.Stöffler D., A. Bischoff, V. Buchwald and A.E. Rubin (1988) Shock effects in meteorites. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 165-202. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Provides a primer on shock processes as recorded by meteorites. A good overview for our class discussion. 

Note: there are more recent papers that are better for applying shock classifications. For example, see: Stöffler D., D. Hamann and K. Metzler (2018) Shock metamorphism of planetary silicate rocks and sediments: proposal for an updated classification system. Metorit. Planet. Sci. 53, 5-49, available over the INTERNET from Wiley.com (downloaded PDF file StofflerEtal2018).

2. Scott E.R.D. and R.S. Rajan (1981) Metallic minerals, thermal histories and parent bodies of some xenolithic, ordinary chondrite meteorites. Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta 45, 53-67. Argues for collisional disruption and reassembly of ordinary chondrite parent bodies based on metallographic cooling rates. An old paper, but very important in that it gets at the complexity of shock and thermal histories experienced by ordinary chondrites. a somewhat forgotten topic for our most numerous of meteorites.


Martian meteorites

1. Udry A. et al. (2020) What martian meteorites reveal about the interior and surface of Mars. JGR Planets 125, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006523. A somewhat comprehensive and broad-scope review of what martian meteorites tell us about the Red Planet.


Lunar meteorites

 1. Joy K.H. and T. Arai (2013) Lunar meteorites: New insights into the geological history of the Moon. A&G54, 4.28-4.32. A concise article that gives the flavor of recent discoveries made on lunar meteorites.