Diffusion chronometry and the timescales of magmatic processes

F Costa, T Shea, T Ubide - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Volcanic eruptions can represent major societal hazards. Placing tighter bounds on the
timescales of magmatic processes that precede eruptions is, therefore, important for volcano …

[HTML][HTML] Clocks in magmatic rocks

F Costa - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the evolution and processes that shape our planet critically depends on the
robustness of the absolute ages and process durations obtained from rocks and crystals …

[HTML][HTML] A unified chronology of dust formation in the early solar system

M Piralla, J Villeneuve, N Schnuriger, DV Bekaert… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
The chronology of dust formation in the early solar system remains controversial.
Chondrules are the most abundant high-temperature objects formed during the evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Igneous meteorites suggest Aluminium-26 heterogeneity in the early Solar Nebula

E Krestianinov, Y Amelin, QZ Yin, P Cary… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The short-lived radionuclide aluminium-26 (26Al) isotope is a major heat source for early
planetary melting. The aluminium-26–magnesium-26 (26Al-26Mg) decay system also …

Half-life and initial Solar System abundance of 146Sm determined from the oldest andesitic meteorite

L Fang, P Frossard, M Boyet… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The formation and differentiation of planetary bodies are dated using radioactive decay
systems, including the short-lived 146Sm-142Nd (T½= 103 or 68 Ma) and long-lived 147Sm …

A temporal shift of chondrule generation from the inner to outer Solar System inferred from oxygen isotopes and Al-Mg chronology of chondrules from primitive CM and …

K Fukuda, TJ Tenner, M Kimura, N Tomioka… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Deciphering the spatial and temporal evolution of chondrules allows for a better
understanding of how asteroidal seeds formed, migrated, and eventually accreted into …

Carbonaceous achondrites Northwest Africa 6704/6693: Milestones for early Solar System chronology and genealogy

ME Sanborn, J Wimpenny, CD Williams… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Northwest Africa (NWA) 6704/6693 are medium-to coarse-grained achondrites with
unique petrologic and geochemical traits that are distinct from the currently established …

Plagioclase alteration and equilibration in ordinary chondrites: Metasomatism during thermal metamorphism

JA Lewis, RH Jones, AJ Brearley - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
In ordinary chondrites (OCs), feldspar is present both in chondrules as a primary, igneous
phase, and as a secondary phase that results from crystallization of chondrule mesostasis …

Element and Sr isotope zoning in plagioclase in the dacites from the southwestern Okinawa Trough: Insights into magma mixing processes and time scales

Z Chen, Z Zeng, X Wang, X Peng, Y Zhang, X Yin… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
The processes and time scales of magma mixing in shallow silicic magma chambers prior to
eruptions in the Okinawa Trough (OT) are still poorly understood. Here, we employed in situ …

New constraints from 26Al-26Mg chronology of anorthite bearing chondrules in unequilibrated ordinary chondrites

G Siron, K Fukuda, M Kimura, NT Kita - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 26 Al-26 Mg ages were determined for 14 anorthite-bearing chondrules from five
different unequilibrated ordinary chondrites (UOCs) with low petrologic subtypes (3.00 …