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  • 124-769A; 184-1143A; 22-213; Antarctic; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Frontier_Mountain; Glomar Challenger; HAND; Indian Ocean//BASIN; Joides Resolution; Leg124; Leg184; Leg22; McMurdo Dry Valleys, southern Victorica Land, Antarctica; Miller_Butte; Mistake_Peak; Mount_Aeolus; Mount_Fleming; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; PC; Pian_delle_Tectiti; Piston corer; RC08; RC08-52; Robert Conrad; Sampling by hand; South China Sea; Sulu Sea; Trap, micrometeorite; TRAPMET; V28; V28-239; Vema  (1)
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    In:  Supplement to: Folco, L; D'Oratio, M; Tiepolo, Massimo; Tonarini, Sonia; Ottolini, L; Perchiazzi, N; Rochette, Pierre; Glass, B P (2009): Transantarctic Mountain microtektites: Geochemical affinity with Australasian microtektites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(12), 3694-3722, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2009.03.021
    Publication Date: 2024-01-09
    Description: We extended the petrographic and geochemical dataset for the recently discovered Transantarctic Mountain microtektites in order to check our previous claim that they are related to the Australasian strewn field. Based on color and composition, the 465 microtektites so far identified include two groups of transparent glass spheres less than ca. 800 µm in diameter: the most abundant pale-yellow, or normal, microtektites, and the rare pale-green, or high-Mg, microtektites. The major element composition of normal microtektites determined through electron microprobe analysis is characterized by high contents of silica (SiO2 = 71.5 ± 3.6 (1 sigma) wt%) and alumina (Al2O3 = 15.5 ± 2.2 (1 sigma) wt%), low total alkali element contents (0.50-1.85 wt%), and MgO abundances 〈6 wt%. The high-Mg microtektites have a distinctly higher MgO content 〉10 wt%. Transantarctic Mountain microtektites contain rare silica-rich (up to 93 wt% SiO2) glassy inclusions similar to those found in two Australasian microtektites analyzed here for comparison. These inclusions are interpreted as partially digested, lechatelierite-like inclusions typically found in tektites and microtektites. The major and trace element (by laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry) abundance pattern of the Transantarctic Mountain microtektites matches the average upper continental crust composition for most elements. Major deviations include a strong to moderate depletion in volatile elements including Pb, Zn, Na, K, Rb, Sr and Cs, as a likely result of severe volatile loss during the high temperature melting and vaporization of crustal target rocks. The normal and high-Mg Transantarctic Mountain microtektites have compositions similar to the most volatile-poor normal and high-Mg Australasian microtektites reported in the literature. Their very low H2O and B contents (by secondary ion mass spectrometry) of 85 ± 58 (1 sigma) ?g/g and 0.53 ± 0.21 ?g/g, respectively, evidence the extreme volatile loss characteristically observed in tektites. The Sr and Nd isotopic compositions of multigrain samples of Transantarctic Mountain microtektites are 87Sr/86Sr ~ 0.71629 and 143Nd/144Nd ~ 0.51209, and fall into the Australasian tektite compositional field. The Nd model age calculated with respect to the chondritic uniform reservoir (CHUR) is TNdCHUR ~ 1.1 Ga, indicating a Meso-Proterozoic crustal source rock, as was derived for Australasian tektites as well. Coupled with the Quaternary age from the literature, the extended dataset presented in this work strengthens our previous conclusion that Transantarctic Mountain microtektites represent a major southward extension of the Australasian tektite/microtektite strewn field. Furthermore, the significant depletion in volatile elements (i.e., Pb, B, Na, K, Zn, Rb, Sr and Cs) of both normal and high-Mg Transantarctic Mountain microtektites relative to the Australasian ones provide us with further confirmation of a possible relationship between high temperature-time regimes in the microtektite-forming process and ejection distance.
    Keywords: 124-769A; 184-1143A; 22-213; Antarctic; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Frontier_Mountain; Glomar Challenger; HAND; Indian Ocean//BASIN; Joides Resolution; Leg124; Leg184; Leg22; McMurdo Dry Valleys, southern Victorica Land, Antarctica; Miller_Butte; Mistake_Peak; Mount_Aeolus; Mount_Fleming; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; PC; Pian_delle_Tectiti; Piston corer; RC08; RC08-52; Robert Conrad; Sampling by hand; South China Sea; Sulu Sea; Trap, micrometeorite; TRAPMET; V28; V28-239; Vema
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