Table 4 Geothemometries
From: An Almahata Sitta EL3 fragment: implications for the complex thermal history of enstatite chondrites
Phase | Geothermometry | References |
|---|---|---|
Metal-Schreibersite | ~ 850 °C | Zhang and Sears (1996) |
Schreibersite | < 1000 °C | Doan and Goldstein (1970) |
Perryite | High-temperature | Kimura et al. (2005) |
Keilite | ~ 600 °C | Skinner and Luce (1971) |
Oldhamite | ~ 600 °C | Skinner and Luce (1971) |
Buseckite | High-temperature | Ma et al. (2012) |
No daubreelite (Cr-bearing troilite) | ≥ 700 °C | El Goresy and Kullerud (1969) |
No metal-troilite eutectic intergrowth | < 970 °C | Ryzhenko and Kennedy (1973) |
Quartz | < 900 °C | Presnell (1995) |
Plagioclase (not kumdykolite) | < 1000 °C | Németh et al. (2013) |
Orthoenstatite | > 600 °C | Smyth (1974) |
No silicate melting | < 1000 °C | McCoy et al. (1999) |