DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116531
论文题名: On the petrogenesis of lunar troctolites: New insights into cumulate mantle overturn & mantle exposures in impact basins
作者: Prissel T.C. ; Gross J.
刊名: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
ISSN: 0012821X
出版年: 2020
卷: 551 语种: 英语
中文关键词: cumulate mantle overturn
; impact basins
; lunar magma ocean
; lunar troctolite
; Mg-suite
; Moon
英文关键词: Magnesia
; Melting
; Moon
; Olivine
; Petrology
; Stratigraphy
; Crystallization age
; Decompression melting
; Forward models
; Fractional crystallization
; Gabbronorites
; Genetic relationships
; Melt production
; Pressure release
; Orbits
; cumulate
; magma
; mantle convection
; melt
; melting
; Moon
; overturn
; petrogenesis
英文摘要: We investigate lunar troctolite petrogenesis with a series of forward models. We simulate the cumulate mantle overturn hypothesis by modeling the adiabatic ascent and decompression melting of primary mantle cumulates produced during differentiation of a lunar magma ocean (LMO). Combined equilibrium and fractional crystallization of candidate liquids generated by the melting model can reproduce the predominant constituents of the lunar magnesian-suite (Mg-suite: troctolites and norites), contrary to previous hypotheses. Model results are consistent with previous studies challenging the proposed and long-standing genetic relationship between Mg-suite and gabbronorites. Our Mg-suite petrogenetic model validates a direct temporal and chemical link between Mg-suite melt production and pressure-release melting of primary LMO cumulates. If so, Mg-suite crystallization ages (4345 ± 15 Ma) can be used to constrain the onset and duration of melting associated with mantle overturn. Based on our model results, we propose an alternative mantle overturn hypothesis whereby upwelling olivine-dominated cumulates experience decompression melting to produce the Mg-suite primary melt (∼1.9% melt at ∼2.1 GPa), but that this melt was extracted from depth akin to lunar picritic glass magmas (low-degree partial melts at depths corresponding to ∼1.3–2.5 GPa). Thus, our revised mantle overturn hypothesis reconciles Mg-suite petrogenesis without the expanse of an olivine-dominated upper mantle (as suggested by the current paradigms, but contradicted by orbital data). This hypothesis supports the presence of a low-Ca pyroxene dominated upper mantle, consistent with mantle stratigraphy constrained by experimental and numerical simulations of LMO differentiation and proposed mantle exposures within impact basins. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/165219
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作者单位: Lunar & Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, 3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX 77058, United States; Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States; Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, United States
Recommended Citation:
Prissel T.C.,Gross J.. On the petrogenesis of lunar troctolites: New insights into cumulate mantle overturn & mantle exposures in impact basins[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,2020-01-01,551