Neutron characterisation of iron meteorite fragments from Monturaqui and Wabar impactites

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Meteorite impacts are one of the most significant processes modifying planetary surfaces, where materials (e.g., rocks, sand, meteorite fragments…) are subjected to temperature of several thousands of Kelvin and pressures of several GPa. These collisions cause irreversible geological changes in the target material, forming shock-metamorphosed rocks called impactites. Impactites from iron meteorites are partially melted, glassy materials containing fragments of the original meteorite—under the form of Fe-Ni spherules—scattered in the glass matrix. We propose to investigate metallic spherules from Monturaqui (Chile) and Wabar (Saudi Arabia) impactites, in order to characterise, by Rietveld refinement of the diffraction pattern, the average composition and microstructure of the alloy (as residual strain, domain size of the crystallographic grains, and defects density).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.92936155
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/92936155
Provenance
Creator Dr Markus Strobl; Dr Antonella Scherillo; Dr Saurabh Kabra; Professor Christian Bender Koch; Dr Anna Fedrigo
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-05-14T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-05-15T09:16:29Z