The quest for an extraterrestrial component in Muong Nong-type and splash-form Australasian tektites from Laos using highly siderophile elements and Re-Os isotope systematics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/19:10398310 RIV/00025798:_____/19:00000069

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703719301474?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703719301474?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.03.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gca.2019.03.009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The quest for an extraterrestrial component in Muong Nong-type and splash-form Australasian tektites from Laos using highly siderophile elements and Re-Os isotope systematics

Original language description

Extremely low and variable concentrations of osmium (Os) and other highly siderophile elements (HSE) in most tektites make it challenging to establish direct links between these impact-related materials and their possible extraterrestrial contribution. New Os concentrations (2–43 ppt) and 187 Os/188 Os ratios (0.131–0.68) in a suite of fifteen well-characterized Australasian tektites from Laos (Muong Nong and splash-form types) with variable Ni enrichment indicate a maximum of ∼0.005% addition of a chondritic impactor. This is similar to some Australasian tektites from Vietnam with similarly low siderophile contents, but significantly lower than found in previous studies of more Ni-rich Australasian splash-form tektites and microtektites from different parts of the Australasian strewn field (e.g., Indonesia, South China Sea). The contents of HSE and Re–Os isotopic compositions of layered Muong Nong-type Australasian tektites are highly variable, suggesting mingling of crustal-derived (siderophile element-poor) and extraterrestrial (siderophile element-rich) materials. The absence of a direct correlation between HSE and Ni contents is interpreted to result from a fractionation process related to their different vaporization/condensation temperatures. The low Os abundance in most of the analyzed Australasian tektites, combined with non-radiogenic 187Os/188 Os far below average upper continental crust, may provide a direct test to distinguish continental versus seawater impact scenario. In the absence of any specific low-Os target, a particular process of Os loss following impact is required. We envisage a scenario where evaporative loss of >>90% Os in the form of Os oxides from the overheated tektite melt is aided by volatile species derived from dissociated seawater and/or saline pore water embedded in sediments off-shore Indochina, consistent with elevated contents of halogens in Australasian tektites. This water-assisted Os loss could also play significant role for Central European tektites, while the continental surface with limited amount of water would prevent from more efficient HSE loss as could be the case for Ivory Coast tektites.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-27099S" target="_blank" >GA17-27099S: Variability of the Australasian tektites in wider vicinity of Muong Nong in Laos - Constraints on their source rocks and a parent crater location</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

ISSN

0016-7037

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

252

Issue of the periodical within the volume

MAY 1 2019

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

179-189

UT code for WoS article

000462774200010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85063053442