Volatile trace elements in Antarctic ureilites

• Published in: Meteoritics
• Main Authors: Wang, Ming‐Sheng, Lipschutz, Michael E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1995
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1995.tb01130.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1945-5100.1995.tb01130.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1995.tb01130.x

Abstract— We report data for Ag, Au, Bi, Cd, Co, Cs, Ga, In, Rb, Sb, Se, Te, Tl, U and Zn in 15 different Antarctic ureilites. Contents of these mainly volatile trace elements in Antarctic ureilites are roughly comparable to those in the four known falls. Trends exhibited by these data apparently reflect geochemical fractionations in parental magma(s), which were closed to loss of vapor. Subsequent events (e.g., shock and crystallization) do not seem to have affected contents of these elements.