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Pigeonite from
Tissint Martian meteorite, Tata Cercle, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Origin locality:Mars
Classification
Species:Pigeonite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Shergottite meteorite1 photo of Pigeonite associated with Shergottite meteorite at this locality.
Maskelynite1 photo of Pigeonite associated with Maskelynite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pigeonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tissint Martian meteorite, Tata Cercle, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:799107
Long-form Identifier:1:3:799107:3
GUID (UUID V4):ea751448-e03f-48e6-a8c2-69e4f251124b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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1111/maps.12726 Mineral chemistry of the Tissint meteorite: Indications of two-stage crystallization...revision accepted 10 July 2016) Abstract–The Tissint meteorite is a geochemically depleted, olivine-phyric...phenocrysts. Among depleted olivine-phyric shergottites, Tissint is the first one that acts mostly as a closed system...phenocrysts. The texture and mineral chemistry of Tissint indicate a crystallization sequence of: olivine...and phosphate. The crystallization of the Tissint meteorite likely occurred in two stages: uniform olivine
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shock-metamorphic mineral from the Tissint meteorite: Implications for the Tissint shock event on Mars Chi Ma...ringwoodite (c-Mg2SiO4). It occurs in the Tissint Martian meteorite, where it forms through the transformation...traversing across a Tissint melt pocket into olivine is: quenched melt or fayalite-pigeonite intergrowth )...metamorphism; Nanomineral; Ringwoodite group; Tissint meteorite; Martian shergottite; Synchrotron diffraction ...a casual perusal of the surficial geology. All Martian meteorites, previously launched from the surface
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shock-induced, high-pressure mineral in the Tissint martian meteorite Chi Ma1,*, Oliver Tschauner2, John R....shock-induced melt pockets, from the Tissint martian meteorite. The composition of type chenmingite by...high pressure and high temperature during the Tissint impact event on Mars. The xieite regions are always...shock-induced phase, Tissint martian meteorite, shergottite Introduction The Tissint martian meteorite is a fresh...shock-generated melt pockets and veins in this meteorite, olivine is often transformed to ringwoodite or
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Accepted Manuscript Effects of Shock and Martian Alteration on Tissint Hydrogen Isotope Ratios and Water Content...L., Lee, M.R., Effects of Shock and Martian Alteration on Tissint Hydrogen Isotope Ratios and Water Content...journal pertain. Effects of Shock and Martian Alteration on Tissint Hydrogen Isotope Ratios and Water Content... ABSTRACT The Tissint meteorite, a picritic shergottite, fell to Earth in Morocco on the 18th of July...July 2011, and is only the fifth Martian meteorite witnessed to fall. Hydrogen isotope ratios and water
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shock-induced, high-pressure clinopyroxene in the Tissint martian meteorite Chi Ma a,∗ , Oliver Tschauner b , John...(CaNa)AlSi2 O6 new high-pressure pyroxene Ca-Eskola Tissint martian shergottite synchrotron diffraction a b s...in contact with, shock-melt pockets in the Tissint meteorite, a depleted olivine-phyric shergottite fall...occur in depleted olivinephyric shergottites like Tissint and other highly shocked meteorites and lunar and...becomes stable, although this was not observed in Tissint. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1.
Conference Paper/Abstract
□)AlSi2O6, TWO HIGH PRESSURE PHASES FROM THE TISSINT MARTIAN METEORITE. Chi Ma1, Oliver Tschauner2, John R. Beckett1...Email: chi@gps.caltech.edu Introduction: Tissint, the recent meteorite fall in 2011, is a fresh heavily-shocked...During a nanomineralogy investigation of this meteorite by high-resolution analytical scanning electron...nanomineralogy works and plays a unique role in meteorite and Mars rock research. Ahrensite (IMA 2013-028):...physics. Both ahrensite and ringwoodite are found in Tissint as fine-grained polycrystalline aggregates in the
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compositions: A planetary example from the Martian basalt (shergottite) Tissint Yann SONZOGNI* and Allan TREIMAN...large melt inclusions in the Martian basalt meteorite (shergottite) Tissint. Small and large melt inclusions...composition of Tissint (inferred to represent its parent melt composition). For Tissint, then, small melt...inclusions in planetary samples, e.g., in the Martian meteorites (e.g., Johnson et al. 1991; Harvey and...olivine of the Martian basalt (shergottite) meteorite Tissint. The compositions of Tissint melt inclusions
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1588–1610 (2016) doi: 10.1111/maps.12684 Martian meteorite Tissint records unique petrogenesis among the...GAIA Laboratory, BP 5366, Ma^ arif, Casablanca, Morocco * Corresponding author: E-mails: amitbs@prl.res...accepted 29 May 2016) Abstract–Tissint, a new unaltered piece of Martian volcanic materials, is the most...indicates that the early-stage cooling rate of Tissint was slower than the other shergottites. The chemically...early to intermediate-stage crystallization of the Tissint bulk. High-Ca pyroxene to low-Ca pyroxene and high-Ca
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12403 Petrology and trace element geochemistry of Tissint, the newest shergottite fall J. Brian BALTA1,2*...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260 3 Center for Meteorite Studies, School of Earth and Space Exploration...recovery of the Tissint meteorite in 2011 created a rare opportunity to examine a Martian sample with a...a known, short residence time on Earth. Tissint is an olivinephyric shergottite that accumulated olivine...analyzed samples of Tissint. Minor and trace element compositions indicate that the meteorite is the product
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Journal Pre-proofs Discovery of coesite from the martian shergottite Northwest Africa 8657 Sen Hu, Yang..., Changela, H., Discovery of coesite from the martian shergottite Northwest Africa 8657, Geochimica et...Elsevier Ltd. 1 Discovery of coesite from the martian shergottite Northwest 2 Africa 8657 3 Sen Hu1...21 We report occurrences of coesite in a martian meteorite, expending previously- 22 reported silica...melts in this 34 meteorite cooled slower than those in other stishovite-bearing martian meteorites, but
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shock-metamorphic, high-pressure mineral from the Zagami Martian meteorite Chi MA 1,*, Oliver TSCHAUNER 2, John R. BECKETT1...silicate mineral, in the Zagami basaltic shergottite meteorite. Liebermannite crystallizes in space  c = 2.74...tetragonal hollandite-type structure observed in the Martian shergottite Zagami, and on the implications of...baddeleyite; the assemblage is surrounded by augite and pigeonite with nearby maskelynite and titanomagnetite. This...chlorapatite and baddeleyite, bounded by augite, pigeonite, chlorapatite, maskelynite, and pyrrhotite. The
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Heterogeneous mineral assemblages in Martian meteorite Tissint as a result of a recent small impact event...Heterogeneous mineral assemblages in Martian meteorite Tissint as a result of a recent small impact event... Heterogeneous mineral assemblages in Martian meteorite Tissint as a result of a recent small impact event...within and adjacent to shock melts in shergottite Tissint are characterized - the distribution of high pressure...thermal history of the sample - Shock effects in Tissint are consistent with their formation in a recent
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10.1111/maps.13374 Northwest Africa 10414, a pigeonite cumulate shergottite R.H. HEWINS 1,2* , B. ZANDA1...cumulate texture. It contains 73% coarse prismatic pigeonite, plus 18% interstitial maskelynite, 2% Si-rich... and only ~3% augite. Phase compositions are pigeonite (En68-43Fs27-48Wo5-15) and maskelynite An~54-36...with abundant pigeonite phenocrysts, though it is coarser grained. Its most Mg-rich pigeonite also has a...composition crystallizes pigeonite with a similar composition range to NWA 10414 pigeonite, using PETROLOG. Olivine-phyric
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consistent with the hypothesis of two distinct Martian mantle reservoirs: a reduced, LREE-depleted reservoir...dense SiO2 glass were also identified in the meteorite, allowing us to infer that NWA 2975 experienced...returned samples, Martian meteorites provide the only opportunity to directly study Martian magmatic and planetary...differentiation processes. The rarer groups of Martian meteorites are older than 1 Ga and include cumulate... ALH 84001, and the newly discovered crustal meteorite NWA 7034 (Brandon et al. 2000; Treiman 2005; Lapen
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shergottites—Shergotty, QUE 94201, LAR 06319, and Tissint—using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). All...models. Conversely, Shergotty, LAR 06319, and Tissint appear to have been affected by postcrystallization...basaltic shergottite magmas provided water to the Martian surface, although evidence may be obscured by subsolidus...the petrogenesis of Martian basalts is still controversial. The samples of Martian basalts that can be...times during Martian history. Surficial water was likely stored deep inside the Martian crust/mantle
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SHARP2, and JR.5 Harry Y. MCSWEEN 1 Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona...INTRODUCTION At present, there are 123 known distinct Martian meteorites totaling a mass of ~140 kg (NASA 2018)...108 distinct samples) are the largest group of Martian meteorites and, based on their modal mineralogy...Understanding the processes that affected these Martian meteorites during their petrogenesis can provide...LAR 12095 (,22) and LAR 12240 (,16) from the Meteorite Working Group. Petrography and Major Element Analyses
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Evidence from olivine-hosted melt inclusions in Tissint A. BASU SARBADHIKARI1,*, E. V. S. S. K. BABU2,...accepted 23 September 2016) Abstract–Melting of Martian mantle, formation, and evolution of primary magma...experimental petrology and geochemical studies of Martian meteorites. Based on in situ major and trace element...inclusions in various stages of crystallization of Tissint, a depleted olivine–phyric shergottite, we further...parallel trend but somewhat lower value than the Tissint wholerock. Model calculations indicate two-stage
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element abundances in shergottites: Implications for Martian core formation Shuying YANG1,2, Munir HUMAYUN1...accretion and core formation. Such data are few for Martian meteorites, and are often lacking in the growing...spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to analyze polished slabs of 15 Martian meteorites for the abundances of about 70 elements...As, and Bi abundances for the Martian mantle. The new estimates of Martian mantle composition support core...pressures (14  3 GPa) in a magma ocean on Mars. meteorite record provides a remarkable source for Mars sample
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than shock-induced transformations related to meteorite impacts (Xie et al. 2002; Feng et al. 2011; Ma...birefringence. Panel f shows the area in e (boxed region), rotated to show maximum birefringence. The green...the rock volume. Olivine is also observed in pigeonite (Pgt) grains in bands and multiphase inclusions...in the heavily shocked Grove Mountains 052049 meteorite from Raman spectra. American Mineralogist, 96...Two new high pressure minerals from the Tissint Martian meteorite. 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
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pages 289–306, 2020 Heavy halogen geochemistry of martian shergottite meteorites and implications for the...information on the bulk halogen composition of martian meteorites is limited, particularly for Br and...12011) and depleted (LAR 12095, LAR 12240, and Tissint) compositional end-members. Distinct differences...are within the ranges previously reported for martian shergottite, nakhlite, and chassignite (SNC) meteorites...chondrites and the martian surface. This may be linked to a volatile-rich martian mantle source, be related
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alteration occurred before ejection of 44 the meteorite. While this type of olivine alteration is rare...significant implications, as it is the third martian meteorite where deuteric alteration of 51 olivine...meteorites would suggest many, if not 53 all martian mantle reservoirs have the potential to produce...Shergottites are the most common type of martian meteorite recovered to date and 66 have mineralogical...82 reservoirs, or deep melts and metasomatized martian lithosphere (Tait and Day, 2018; 83 Day et al
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and the origin of impact-melt glasses in Martian meteorite Elephant Moraine 79001 Christian M. SCHRADER1...revision accepted 09 December 2015) Abstract–Martian meteorite Elephant Moraine A79001 (EET 79001) has received...host shergottite. It has been hypothesized that Martian regolith was incorporated into the melt or, conversely...which then quenched to glass. Such activity in the Martian near-surface is supported by observations from...sulfide melting hypothesis does. INTRODUCTION Martian meteorite Elephant Moraine A79001 (EET 79001) comprises
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INTRODUCTION The nakhlites are meteorites of Martian origin. They are cumulate pyroxenites dominated...chloro-amphiboles that resemble the terrestrial and Martian examples. Finally, we will use these insights to...Therefore, an amphibole that plots in the pargasite region of the classification diagram (Fig. 1) with Mg...compositional data from the terrestrial and Martian meteorite Nakhlite and terrestrial chloro-amphibole...resulted in overestimates of the H2O content of Martian melts (Mysen et al. 1998). 5 Formula Calculation
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com/locate/epsl New bulk sulfur measurements of Martian meteorites and modeling the fate of sulfur during...crystallization – Implications for sulfur transfer from Martian mantle to crust–atmosphere system Shuo Ding a,∗...Editor: B. Marty Keywords: Mars deep sulfur cycle Martian meteorites mantle melting fractional crystallization...atmosphere of Mars are tied to igneous processes. Martian meteorites carry a record of mantle melting and...differentiation history of Martian magmas. Investigation of S geochemistry of Martian meteorites can thus provide
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intensely affected, reshaped and buried the primary Martian crust. This study evaluates whether the igneous...focus is laid on two different components of the Martian Ni–Cu±(PGE) sulphide mineral system: 1) the potential...sulphide liquids. We show that potentially metal-rich Martian mantle melts likely reach sulphide saturation within...evolution. Given the high sulphur inventory of Martian crustal reservoirs, ranging from sulphide bearing...morphology and physicochemical characteristics of Martian igneous activity comes from optical systems on
 
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