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Thermal, dynamical, and chemical processes in our early Solar System

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science welcomes submissions to the special issue on 'Thermal, dynamical, and chemical processes in our early Solar System'.

Meteorites from asteroids, the Moon and Mars, as well as lunar and terrestrial impactites contain detailed records of the early formation processes of our Solar System. Microstructures and shock-induced high pressure phases found in meteorites, lunar samples, and terrestrial impact craters provide critical constraints to the history, dynamics, and kinetics of shock events. In this SPEPS series, we address research topics related to mineral phase and micro-texture analysis, chemical and isotope compositions, and P-T-t path of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial samples.

Edited by: Audrey Bouvier, Tom Sharp, Makoto Kimura, Yangting Lin
 



  1. Neumann band in iron meteorites, which is deformation twins in kamacite (Fe–Ni alloy), has been known to be a characteristic texture indicating ancient collisions on parent bodies of meteorites. We conducted a...

    Authors: Eiji Ohtani, Toru Sakurabayashi and Kosuke Kurosawa
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:24
  2. We conducted back-transformation experiments in ringwoodite, bridgmanite, and lingunite at 0.47–8.1 GPa and 310–920 °C by in situ X-ray observation method. Ringwoodite back-transformed to olivine by grain-boun...

    Authors: Tomoaki Kubo, Ko Kamura, Masahiro Imamura, Yoshinori Tange, Yuji Higo and Masaaki Miyahara
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:21
  3. We have determined rare-earth element (REE) abundances in oldhamites (CaS) from 13 unequilibrated and equilibrated enstatite chondrites (5 EH and 8 EL) and in a few enstatites by in situ, laser ablation ICP-MS...

    Authors: Tahar Hammouda, Maud Boyet, Paul Frossard and Camille Cartier
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:13
  4. The goal of classifying shock metamorphic features in meteorites is to estimate the corresponding shock pressure conditions. However, the temperature variability of shock metamorphism is equally important and ...

    Authors: Jinping Hu and Thomas G. Sharp
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:6
  5. We report on the mineralogy, petrography, and O and Al-Mg isotopic systematics of secondary mineralization in the metasomatically altered igneous Ca,Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) [compact type A (CTA), B1, B2, for...

    Authors: Alexander N. Krot, Michail I. Petaev and Kazuhide Nagashima
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:61
  6. Hypervelocity impacts are among the fundamental phenomena occurring during the evolution of the solar system and are characterized by instantaneous ultrahigh pressure and temperature. Varied physicochemical ch...

    Authors: Masaaki Miyahara, Naotaka Tomioka and Luca Bindi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:59
  7. Almahata Sitta is a polymict breccia, consisting of many kinds of clasts. Here we present our mineralogical and petrological results on an EL3 fragment, MS-177 from Almahata Sitta. This fragment shows a typica...

    Authors: M. Kimura, M. K. Weisberg, A. Takaki, N. Imae and A. Yamaguchi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:55
  8. We investigated the compressional behavior of i-AlCuFe quasicrystal using diamond anvil cell under quasi-hydrostatic conditions by in situ angle-dispersive X-ray powder diffraction measurements (in both compre...

    Authors: Vincenzo Stagno, Luca Bindi, Sota Takagi and Atsushi Kyono
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:27