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Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in impact melt rocks: Implications for Martian meteorites
ABSTRACT The Manicouagan impact event has been the subject of multiple age determinations over the past ~50 yr, providing an ideal test site for evaluating the viability of different geochronometers. This study highlights the suitability of Manicouagan’s essentially pristine impact melt body as a medium for providing insight into the U-Pb isotope systematics of geochronometers in the absence of shock-related overprinting. We performed in situ laser-ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) U-Pb geochronology on apatite and zircon, both of which crystallized as primary phases. This study is the first application of U-Pb geochronology to apatite crystallized within a terrestrial impact melt sheet. U-Pb analyses were obtained from 200 melt-grown apatite grains ( n = 222 spots), with a data subset providing a lower-intercept age of 212.5 ± 8.0 Ma. For melt-grown zircon, a total of 30 analyses from 28 grains were obtained, with a subset of the data yielding a lower-intercept age of 213.1 ± 1.6 Ma. The lower precision (±8.0 Ma; ±3%) obtained from apatite is a consequence of low U and a high and variable common-Pb composition. This resulted from localized Pb*/Pb C heterogeneity within the impact melt sheet that was incorporated into the apatite crystal structure during crystallization (where Pb*/Pb C is the ratio of radiogenic Pb to common Pb). While considered a limitation to the precision obtainable from melt-grown apatite, its ability to record local-scale isotopic variations highlights an advantage of U-Pb studies on melt-grown apatite. The best-estimate ages from zircon and apatite overlap within error and correlate with previously determined ages for the Manicouagan impact event. An average formation age from the new determinations, combined with previous age constraints, yields a weighted mean age of 214.96 ± 0.30 Ma for the Manicouagan impact structure.
Distinguishing friction- from shock-generated melt products in hypervelocity impact structures
ABSTRACT Field, microtextural, and geochemical evidence from impact-related melt rocks at the Manicouagan structure, Québec, Canada, allows the distinction to be made between friction-generated (pseudotachylite) and shock-generated melts. Making this distinction is aided by the observation that a significant portion of the impact structure’s central peak is composed of anorthosite that was not substantially involved in the production of impact melt. The anorthosite contrasts with the ultrabasic, basic, intermediate, and acidic gneisses that were consumed by decompression melting of the >60 GPa portion of the target volume to form the main impact melt body. The anorthosite was located below this melted volume at the time of shock loading and decompression, and it was subsequently brought to the surface from 7–10 km depth during the modification stage. Slip systems (faults) within the anorthosite that facilitated its elevation and collapse are occupied by pseudotachylites possessing anorthositic compositions. The Manicouagan pseudotachylites were not shock generated; however, precursor fracture-fault systems may have been initiated or reactivated by shock wave passage, with subsequent tectonic displacement and associated frictional melting occurring after shock loading and rarefaction. Pseudotachylites may inject off their generation planes to form complex intrusive systems that are connected to, but are spatially separated from, their source horizons. Comparisons are made between friction and shock melts from Manicouagan with those developed in the Vredefort and Sudbury impact structures, both of which show similar characteristics. Overall, pseudotachylite has compositions that are more locally derived. Impact melts have compositions reflective of a much larger source volume (and typically more varied source lithology inputs). For the Manicouagan, Vredefort, and Sudbury impact structures, multiple target lithologies were involved in generating their respective main impact melt bodies. Consequently, impact melt and pseudotachylite can be discriminated on compositional grounds, with assistance from field and textural observations. Pseudotachylite and shock-generated impact melt are not the same products, and it is important not to conflate them; each provides valuable insight into different stages of the hypervelocity impact process.