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Annealing history of zircons from Apollo 14083 and 14303 impact breccias
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology. (NordSIMS)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9018-6862
2018 (English)In: Meteoritics and Planetary Science, ISSN 1086-9379, E-ISSN 1945-5100, Vol. 53, no 12, p. 2632-2643Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Abstract Breccia boulders scattered around the 25 Ma Cone Crater near the Apollo 14 landing site provide a potential source of material ejected from the underlying Fra Mauro formation, which is interpreted to form from the ejecta blanket of the ~3.9 Ga Imbrium impact. However, questions remain as to whether all or some of the rocks collected are from the Fra Mauro Formation. In this contribution, we present new Raman measurements on zircons from impact breccias 14083 and 14303 that indicate a zircon radiation damage age of the breccias of 3900 ± 120 (2σ) Ma. These ages are compatible with a history of thermal shock during their emplacement as part of the Imbrium impact ejecta blanket. In contrast, previously published Raman analyses of zircons from a sample of breccia 14311 have a younger radiation damage age of 3410 ± 80 (2σ) Ma, confirming that this breccia had a different thermal history and was possibly unrelated to the Fra Mauro Formation. The radiation damage ages of breccias 14083 and 14303, in combination with previously published apatite U-Pb ages, place constraints on the thermal conditions within the Imbrium ejecta blanket.

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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (10.1111) , 2018. Vol. 53, no 12, p. 2632-2643
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The changing Earth
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-3534DOI: 10.1111/maps.13185OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-3534DiVA, id: diva2:1375206
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2019/12/04
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