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An early I‐Xe age for CB chondrite chondrule formation, and a re‐evaluation of the closure age of Shallowater enstatite
Author(s) -
GILMOUR J. D.,
CROWTHER S. A.,
BUSFIELD A.,
HOLLAND G.,
WHITBY J. A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
meteoritics and planetary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.09
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 1086-9379
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb00752.x
Subject(s) - enstatite , chondrule , chondrite , isochron , meteorite , geology , geochemistry , mineralogy , astrobiology , physics
— The iodine‐xenon system has been analyzed in samples of 7 chondrules from the CB chondrites Gujba and Hammadah al Hamra (HaH) 237. One sample from Gujba defined a high temperature iodine‐xenon isochron corresponding to closure 1.87 ± 0.4 Ma before closure of Shallowater enstatite. Motivated by this result, we employ outlier rejection to re‐evaluate the Shallowater age, leading to a modified value of 4562.3 ± 0.4 Ma (1s̀). In this process, the datum obtained by combining our I‐Xe age for Gujba with the literature Pb‐Pb age is rejected as an outlier, indicating that in this sample the I‐Xe system closed earlier than the accepted Pb‐Pb age of chondrules from CB chondrites. The need for a formation environment distinct from that of chondrules from other meteorites is thus reduced.