A re-evaluation of the Mn-Cr systematics of olivine from the angrite meteorite D'Orbigny using secondary ion mass spectrometry

McKibbin, Seann; Amelin, Yuri; Holden, Peter; Sugiura, Naoji; Ireland, Trevor

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A re-evaluation of the Mn-Cr systematics of olivine from the angrite meteorite D'Orbigny using secondary ion mass spectrometry

Date

2013

Authors

McKibbin, Seann

Amelin, Yuri

Holden, Peter

Sugiura, Naoji

Ireland, Trevor

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

'Quenched' angrite meteorites are among the best time markers of igneous activity in early formed planetesimals of the Solar System. They can be precisely dated by the Mn-Cr extinct nuclide decay system because they contain olivine with high Mn/Cr. Nevert