Trace element and isotopic characteristics of inclusions in the Yamato ordinary chondrites Y-75097, Y-793241 and Y-794046

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Igneous inclusions and hosts of the Yamato ordinary chondrites Y-75097 (L6), Y-793241 (L6) and Y-794046 (H5) were analyzed for lithophile trace elements, and Rb-Sr, rare gas and oxygen isotopes, together with preliminary petrographic examinations. On a three oxygen-isotope plot, all the inclusions lie near the H-chondrite field. The Y-75097 host and inclusion were severely shocked and the Rb-Sr systematics were disturbed by a 500Ma event which was defined by the K-Ar age. The Y-793241 host and inclusion are unshocked and have an old K-Ar age of 4270±170Ma and undisturbed Rb-Sr systematics for the bulk meteorite. Both Y-75097 and Y-793241 inclusions have similar chemical compositions and mineral assemblages consisting mainly of olivine (Fa_<25>), and minor plagioclase (An_<12-19>), chlor-apatite, merrillite and chromite. Olivines in both inclusions equilibrated with those of their L6 hosts. The two inclusion mantles consisting of mainly olivine and plagioclase show a highly fractionated REE pattern with middle REE depletion and a large positive Eu anomaly (50-100 times chondritic) (V-shaped). A model calculation suggests that this remarkable REE fractionation was produced by thermal equilibration with the phosphate-rich cores of inclusions during the igneous formation and the metamorphic event. The Y-794046 inclusion comprises abundant anhedral olivines (Fa_<20.5>), fractured pyroxenes (Fs_<14-16.5>) and microcrystalline plagioclase (An_<3-5>Ab_<81-96>Or_<0-16>). The inclusion did not equilibrate with its host which has less Fe-rich olivines (Fa_<19>) and more Fe in pyroxenes (Fs_<17.5>). The inclusion shows an unfractionated REE pattern. We suggest that the three inclusions formed by melting of differentiated precursor materials carrying unfractionated REE. They were then incorporated into the L-or H-chondrite parent bodies and subjected to the early thermal metamorphism, which eventually overprinted the fractionated REE in the Y-75097 and Y-793241 inclusions by solid/solid equilibrium partitioning. The Y-794046 inclusion was subjected to less extensive equilibration, so that REE abundances remained unfractionated.
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Trace element and isotopic characteristics of inclusions in the Yamato ordinary chondrites Y-75097, Y-793241 and Y-794046

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