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Comprehensive imaging and Raman spectroscopy of carbonate globules from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 and a terrestrial analogue from Svalbard
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Abstract— We report a comprehensive imaging study including confocal microRaman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and 3‐D extended focal imaging light microscopy of carbonate globules throughout a depth profile of the Martian meteorite Allan Hills (ALH) 84001 and similar objects in mantle peridotite xenoliths from the Bockfjorden volcanic complex (BVC), Svalbard. Carbonate and iron oxide zoning in ALH 84001 is similar to that seen in BVC globules. Hematite appears to be present in all ALH 84001 carbonate‐bearing assemblages except within a magnesite outer rim found in some globules. Macromolecular carbon (MMC) was found in intimate association with magnetite in both ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates. The MMC synthesis mechanism appears similar to established reactions within the Fe‐C‐O system. By inference to a terrestrial analogue of mantle origin (BVC), these results appear to represent the first measurements of the products of an abiotic MMC synthesis mechanism in Martian samples. Furthermore, the ubiquitous but heterogeneous distribution of hematite throughout carbonate globules in ALH 84001 may be partly responsible for some of the wide range in measured oxygen isotopes reported in previous studies. Using BVC carbonates as a suitable analogue, we postulate that a low temperature hydrothermal model of ALH 84001 globule formation is most likely, although alteration (decarbonation) of a subset of globules possibly occurred during a later impact event.
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“a thin film of carbonate was layered over the glass, revealing that carbonate deposition post-dates glass formation”
§ Comprehensive imaging and Raman spectroscopy of carbonate globules from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 and a terrestrial analogue from Svalbard > Raman Analysis of Carbonates
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The Feldspathic Glass section (p. 10) says feldspathic glass was the last phase to enter the fractures and that the carbonates beside it were mechanically entrained, not precipitated after glass intrusion. It also says the stratigraphy is inconsistent with glass formation preceding the carbonate MSM sequences. The paper therefore does not interpret carbonate on the glass as evidence of later deposition. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“to have formed from a single event during the time of the eruption of Sverrefjell volcano about 1 Myr ago.”
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The Introduction (p. 2) discusses ancient carbonates in the martian meteorite ALH 84001, not BVC carbonate globules. Searches for BVC, Sverrefjell, and a formation event about 1 Myr ago found no passage addressing the attributed claim; the paper's account of different carbonates does not contradict it. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“which adds weight to the argument that the globules in ALH 84001 also formed from a single event.”
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The Proposed Sequence of Events (p. 8) describes one carbonate growth stage in which the rosettes (globules) formed. The Nucleation section (p. 8) also says rosettes and slab carbonates formed during the same growth event. The paper describes later alteration and carbonate precipitation, but distinguishes those from the initial growth of the rosettes. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“In comparison, the BVC xenolith carbonates were predominately white throughout with darkened centers and rims.”
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“Hematite appears to be present in all ALH 84001 carbonate-bearing assemblages except within a magnesite outer rim found in some globules.”
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“Mapping the peak center shift of both the ~300 cm -1 and ~1090 cm -1 peaks did, however, reveal chemical zoning of the globules carbonates”
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“The composition of carbonate from zone 1 of BVC carbonates closely matches that of zone D in the ALH 84001 carbonates.”
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“Comparing the trends of the standards and the ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates reveals a progressive trend from a more calcite-and siderite-rich carbonate (probably ankerite) near the center to siderite/ magnesite-rich carbonate at the outer rim”
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“Rings of magnetite without associated carbonate were observed throughout all allocations of ALH 84001.”
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“Macromolecular carbon (MMC) was found in intimate association with magnetite in both ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates.”
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“The averaged spectrum from ALH 84001-A shows a peak distribution that is similar to that expected from a mixture of sideritic carbonate and hematite”
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“Magnetite, confirmed by Raman spectroscopy, was also observed as undulating threads passing through areas of diffuse, nonglobular carbonates or as small groups of crystals throughout the matrix of the meteorite.”
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“Carbonate and iron oxide zoning in ALH 84001 is similar to that seen in BVC globules.”
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“Dark-to light-colored orange carbonates were also present as chaotically diffuse patches”
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“All samples of ALH 84001 contained numerous carbonate globules”
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“We find no evidence that the glass intruded through an established carbonate assemblage.”
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“The Raman peak distribution in ALH 84001 shows broad peaks at both ~1600 and 1350 cm -1 (G and D band) that are indicative of MMC and not of poorly ordered or crystalline graphite (Fig. 5).”
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“Eight globules have small patches of MMC within the inner sideritic zones of the carbonate globules where they are always associated with small regions of magnetite.”
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“Raman spectroscopic analyses of similar material (i.e., carbonaceous chondrites and IDPs) show a peak distribution of MMC similar to that found in this study (Fig. 4) (for examples, see Nakamura et al. 2002).”
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“and that the D and G band Raman peak distribution of MMC is similar to that found in carbonaceous chondrites and IDPs.”
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“These globules are representative (~15 from 30 imaged) of a distinct class of magnetite and MMC containing globules within the BVC xenoliths.”
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“In many of the ALH 84001 globules, MMC is associated with magnetite both in the rims (Figs.6f and 6j) and around small magnetite particles inside fresh internal carbonate surfaces (Fig. 9f).”
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“MMC in ALH 84001 varies from very ordered (very graphitic) to very disordered (similar to IDPs) (see Fig. 5).”
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“Analyses of both slab and globule core carbonates in ALH 84001 revealed the pervasive presence of hematite within the carbonate phase”
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“MMC material is present in most of the analyzed assemblages.”
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“Many surfaces contain rings of magnetite with little or no carbonate associated with them.”
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“Out of eight areas of magnetite analyzed in the matrix, seven contain evidence of MMC (Fig. 8).”
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“the peak distribution of graphite and poorly ordered graphite are significantly different from kerogen or MMC (Fig. 5).”
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“Throughout the matrix of every analyzed sample are numerous areas of irregular optically dark assemblages of magnetite”
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“Out of twenty globules imaged throughout the depth profile, five showed patches and/or bands of MMC from areas within the rims.”
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“MMC was not associated with hematite.”
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“BVC carbonate chemistry (Fig. 3) varies as widely as in ALH 84001”
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“The majority of carbon found in BVC and ALH 84001 samples (BVC and spectra ALH 84001-2) displayed very broad D and G bands similar to the carbon spectra of IDPs and kerogen.”
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“In fact, hematite was detectable at the lowest limit of laser power (0.1 mW) and an integration time of only 1 s.”
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“MMC, where present (Fig. 6h), appeared as discrete small domains within the magnetite rims.”
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“The BVC globules vary from an ironrich magnesite in the core to almost pure magnesite at the rim.”
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“Carbonate globules in ALH 84001 show a progression from a calcium-rich siderite, probably ankerite core to magnesian carbonate at the rim.”
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“The association of plagioclase-like glass with slab carbonate has been observed in two areas analyzed in this study.”
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“Several observations suggest the presence of microcrystalline hematite within ALH 84001 carbonates.”
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“No zeolite minerals were detected in the carbonates studied within xenoliths.”
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“and we have documented that this carbon is clearly associated with interior, fresh carbonate minerals throughout the entire depth of this meteorite.”
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“These processes occur in matrix features as well as the carbonates.”
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“While hematite concentrations are very heterogeneous throughout the globules, our data reveal a qualitative trend of decreasing hematite concentration from center to rim (Fig. 9i).”
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“The discovery of MMC-magnetite assemblages in ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates is evidence that this formation mechanism is not restricted to terrestrial environments”
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“Due to the similarity of the BVC and ALH 84001 globules”
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“Hematite is present in all analyzed carbonates.”
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“shows a progressive decrease in hematite peak intensity from zones a-d.”
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“By inference to a terrestrial analogue of mantle origin (BVC), these results appear to represent the first measurements of the products of an abiotic MMC synthesis mechanism in Martian samples.”
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“These samples constitute a complete depth profile from fusion crust to the center of the meteorite.”
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“No systematic studies of ALH 84001 from the external fusion crust to the core of the meteorite have been conducted.”
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“the lherzolitehosted carbonate globules studied here show a textural setting and carbon isotope composition (δ 13 C PDB = -6‰) (Steele et al. 2005), indicating formation from cooling of primary mantle CO 2 -rich fluids.”
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“Furthermore, the ubiquitous but heterogeneous distribution of hematite throughout carbonate globules in ALH 84001 may be partly responsible for some of the wide range in measured oxygen isotopes reported in previous studies.”
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“The MMC synthesis mechanism appears similar to established reactions within the Fe-C-O system.”
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“Using BVC carbonates as a suitable analogue, we postulate that a low temperature hydrothermal model of ALH 84001 globule formation is most likely”
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“We conclude that the carbonaceous material detected in our study is composed of MMC containing a range of compounds including polyaromatic species”
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“the low temperatures and corresponding lack of kinetic energy for crystalline graphite formation should reasonably produce the MMC and PAHs found in this study and others.”
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“However, as the temperature decreases from 400 °C to 0 °C, so does fO 2 in a system buffered by hematite and magnetite.”
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“Therefore, during formation of both the BVC and ALH 84001 globules, large fluctuations in oxygen fugacity (up to ~-40 log units of fO 2 ) and temperature were possible.”
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“The stability field for siderite is small in temperature/fO 2 space compared to that for magnetite and graphite.”
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“PAHs have also been detected in the MMC/graphitic component of carbonaceous chondrites and IDPs using the same techniques as applied to ALH 84001 by the McKay et al. team, i.e., two-step laser ablation mass spectrometry (Messenger 1998;Clemett and Zare 1997).”
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“We postulate that these rings once contained carbonates as it seems very unlikely for magnetite to spontaneously crystallize in such a fashion.”
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“We conclude, therefore, that the PAHs originally found in ALH 84001 by McKay et al. (1996) are related to the pool of carbon analyzed in this study.”
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“thus indicating that the zonation seen in ALH 84001 could occur during primary formation of carbonate globules.”
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“Indigenous MMC, which may include PAHs, has been found within ALH 84001 (Becker et al. 1999;Clemett et al. 1998;Jull et al. 1998;McKay et al. 1996).”
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“the studies on BVC show that magnetite and carbonates associated with MMC can form during primary development of the globules.”
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“the D and G bands of carbon Raman spectra cannot discriminate between known biological signal (Gunflint microfossil) and the nonbiological carbon in IDPs.”
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“The presence of MMC within carbonate globules in lherzolite xenoliths from BVC suggests that macromolecular carbonaceous material can be generated during carbonate deposition within mantle rocks on Earth.”
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“These conditions would all predispose the formation of MMC observed in both BVC carbonates and ALH 84001.”
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“ALH 84001 has undergone a complicated heating history compared to the BVC carbonates, which makes interpreting the mechanism of MMC formation in ALH 84001 complicated.”
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“Laser heating studies confirm that our analytical methods were not responsible for converting siderite into hematite.”
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“The lower wavenumber peaks of hematite may also have been misinterpreted as magnetite (Cooney et al. 1999).”
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“As other studies have hypothesized and we have now shown, there is an abiogenic explanation for a portion of the indigenous organic carbon in ALH 84001.”
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“Therefore, a significant portion of the organic carbon in ALH 84001 probably exists as a macromolecular phase”
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“However, it is unlikely that the MMC described in this study of ALH 84001 is contamination, as it occurs in such a spatially resolved fashion (i.e., always associated with magnetite) and within freshly revealed carbonate beneath an apparently altered outer rind.”
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“The similarity of the MMC in ALH 84001 to the BVC mantle MMC in peridotite carbonates, which are known to have formed from mantle fluids, supports this argument.”
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“However, the oxygen isotopes of ALH 84001 have been shown to vary by over 30‰ (for review see Niles et al. 2005 and references therein).”
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“Hematite may not have been detected previously in ALH 84001 globules because the primary analytical tools were optical and electron microscopy and elemental mapping (electron microprobe, energy dispersive X-ray analysis), with the mineralogy of the carbonate composition being inferred from assessments based on the amounts of Fe, Ca, Mg, Mn, C, and O present (McKay et al. 1996;Mittlefehldt 1994aM”
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“However, different isotopic partitioning occurring between oxygen contained in the carbonate and that in hematite may confound the oxygen isotope measurements that have been made.”
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“It has also been noted that the formation of MMC and PAHs is energetically favorable even at moderately high H 2 fugacities (Eck 1966;Zolotov and Shock 2000).”
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“In essence, however, the formation mechanisms for MMC from scenarios (a) and (b) are the same”
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“Previous Raman spectroscopic studies conducted on ALH 84001 failed to detect hematite (Cooney et al. 1999;Bell et al. 1999).”
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“This observation combined with carbon isotope data (that shows the carbonates in basaltic vesicles formed from meteoric water and those in the xenoliths from mantle-derived fluids) indicates there are two possible populations of globules present at the BVC site.”
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“The conditions of the shock removal of ALH 84001 from Mars postulated by Fritz et al. (2003) would not have affected the magnetic properties of magnetite formed from decarbonation of siderite during an earlier impact event.”
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“It is implausible therefore that terrestrially derived biological organic matter could account for the MMC in ALH 84001 and BVC in such a spatially resolved fashion.”
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“The discovery of MMC-magnetite assemblages in ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates is evidence that this formation mechanism is not restricted to terrestrial environments”
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“MMC can be produced through deposition from CO 2rich fluids in the presence of Fe oxides.”
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“we suggest that it is a primary depositional phase.”
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“the formation reaction mechanism for the observed MMC, i.e., cooling of CO 2 -rich gases, is the same in both cases.”
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“The zoning of carbonates in ALH 84001 is consistent with a single depositional event as shown by the BVC carbonates.”
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“the presence of MMC in ALH 84001 does not require input from chondritic carbon.”
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“cooling of CO 2 -rich aqueous fluids may act as a MMC formation mechanism on any planet.”
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“There is a qualitative trend of hematite gradient corresponding to the observed shift in δ 18 O.”
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“While we favor the cooling of a hydrothermal fluid hypothesis for the formation of both the slab carbonates and Type 1 and 2 carbonate globules”
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“the formation reaction mechanism for the observed MMC, i.e., cooling of CO 2 -rich gases, is the same in both cases.”
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“This appears to be the first evidence of an abiotic MMC synthesis mechanism indigenous to Mars.”
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“This possibly explains the observations of Corrigan and Harvey (2004) that high-temperature interactions between carbonate and glass were not apparent in the samples they studied, as opposed to other studies (e.g., Barber and Scott 2003).”
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The Conclusions (p. 12) state that feldspathic glass was emplaced with little or no thermal effect on the carbonates, citing the lack of thermal decomposition or compositional changes at the glass contact. The Feldspathic Glass section (p. 10) likewise reports no systematic evidence of decarbonation in the interstitial carbonates examined. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“From Raman spectra of the carbonate standards, the peak center distribution of both the ~300 and ~1090 cm -1 bands of ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates indicates four distinct zones in ALH 84001 (labeled a-d in Figs.3b and 3d).There are only two zones measured in the BVC carbonates (labeled 1 and 2 in Figs.3b and 3d).”
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“Zone 2 of the BVC samples is almost pure magnesite and appears marginally less iron-rich than the magnesium carbonates from the outer rims of ALH 84001 (ALH 84001-D).”
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“The carbon spectra were indicative of mainly amorphous macromolecular material (Fig. 5) that was found spatially associated with rings of magnetite at both the center and periphery of the globule.”
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“Whereas some globules contained a white magnesite zone between two outer rims of magnetite-as identified from previous observations (McKay et al. 1996) and during Raman mapping-most had only a single magnetite rim”
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“Abrading the surface of globules from ALH 84001 with a cleaned stainless steel needle showed a transition from the orange carbonate at the surface to a white carbonate beneath.This white carbonate contained small veins and concentrations of a reddish material”
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“The vast majority of MMC found in ALH 84001 is relatively amorphous, with crystalline graphite occurring in two localities among the matrix magnetite assemblages analyzed.”
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“Laser heating visibly damaged freshly revealed surfaces only after the laser power was increased above 10 mW”
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“The zoning pattern in BVC globules, however, is spatially much finer than in ALH 84001, and oscillates between these two end members before magnetite deposition begins at the outer rim.”
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“Whereas hematite and pyrrhotite were distributed heterogeneously throughout the globules, magnetite was concentrated mostly within the rims and as discrete 0.5-5 μm patches within the carbonate globules.”
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“Complex zonation is also seen in these”
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“However the characteristic ~180 cm -1 peak of calcite was not detected in this study, suggesting that the calcium is present within a sideritic carbonate, possibly as ankerite.”
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“Interestingly, they appear alongside intact carbonate globules (Fig. 1a), indicating that the spatial distribution of any heating event was heterogeneous on the scale of tens of microns.”
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“An outer”
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“Our observations are consistent throughout the entire depth profile of ALH 84001.”
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“The peak center shift of the carbonate 330 cm -1 peak showing four distinct zones, marked by the letters a-d.”
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“ALH 84001 is shown in red and exhibits four distinct peaks indicative of the zones seen in (b); BVC is in blue and shows two distinct peaks correlating to the areas marked in (d).”
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“Raman spot spectra were collected for a number of known compounds to assist in assignment of the Raman bands observed in ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates.”
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“The experiment was also conducted on the siderite reference material to ensure that laser heating was not responsible for the observations of hematite in the ALH 84001 carbonates.”
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“A cosmic ray reduction routine was used to reduce the effects of stray radiation on Raman images, as was image thresholding to reject isolated bright pixels.”
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“a range of carbonate globules in BVC xenoliths occur both as trapped inclusions within mantle minerals and in pockets between mineral grains, and are interpreted to have been deposited by primary mantle fluids (Amundsen 1987).”
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“although alteration (decarbonation) of a subset of globules possibly occurred during a later impact event.”
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“The BVC eruptive centers have a range of different carbonate deposits (Amundsen 1987), including magnesite globules similar to those found in ALH 84001.”
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“Fluorescence effects were inhibited by the use of specific peak fitting in place of spectral area sums and by the confocal optics used in this instrument.”
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“Therefore, to ensure that the laser power used was not affecting the samples, a study to incrementally increase the laser power during analysis was conducted.”
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“Hot CO 2 -containing aqueous fluids cooled rapidly, during which time the oxygen fugacity fell, thus promoting the formation of reduced-carbon phases alongside magnetite.”
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“Coupling this observation with the presence of a second order carbon peak appears to confirm that the MMC in ALH 84001-1 is more graphitic in nature than that in ALH 84001-2, thus illustrating there is a range of MMC in ALH 84001 tending from very amorphous to more graphitic.”
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“Both the ALH 84001 and BVC globules appear to be slightly recessed into the host mineral (seen in Fig. 1c).This suggests that some interaction between the host rock and the globules took place during their formation.”
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“Graphite has been previously detected by Raman spectroscopy in the Martian meteorite NWA 1068 (Hochleitner 2004).”
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“Becker et al. (1999) demonstrated the presence of MMC in the matrix of ALH 84001.”
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“We are, therefore, left with the observation that the siderite originally contained in these magnetite rings was removed by either dissolution or vaporization.”
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“Conversely, the BVC globule samples are known to have formed from a single event during the time of the eruption of Sverrefjell volcano about 1 Myr ago.”
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“During this process, the conditions in BVC samples evidently entered the magnetite/graphite stability field twice, as MMC carbon with magnetite is detected in both the center and the outer rims of the carbonate globules.”
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“Thermodynamic calculations and experimental data on the thermal breakdown of siderite show that PAHs, graphite, and MMC are produced”
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“Flynn et al. (1999 and2000) showed the presence of C-C, C=C, and possibly C-H bonds in both carbonate and rim material (Becker et al. 1999;Flynn et al. 1998;Flynn et al. 1997).”
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“No visible damage to any surface or change in Raman spectra was observed using 0.3-1 mW and 5 s integration times.”
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“Any secondary heating event above 40-80 °C (Weiss et al. 2000) should have destroyed the magnetic properties of primary deposited magnetites and pyrrhotites in all globule types, unless the magnetite and pyrrhotite in the outer rim of type 2 globules and the magnetite within the matrix were formed in this event.”
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“The MMC associated with these globules was deposited at the same time a CO 2and Fe-rich mantle-derived fluid deposited magnetite, hematite, and carbonate as a single event without the influence of biology.”
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“Our data are consistent with the arguments that carbonate globules in ALH 84001 formed from rapidly cooling hydrothermal Fe-and CO 2 -rich fluids, principally due to their chemical and textural similarity to BVC carbonates.”
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“Concomitant to the shock event, Brearley (2003) proposed that during this heating event, the meteorite was experiencing considerable thermal heterogeneity, a factor expanded upon by Treiman (2003).”
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“Brearley (2003) speculated that fracturing of the magnetite rim matrix boundary is evidence of a volume decrease associated with magnetite formation from siderite during a shock event.”
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“Evidence from remnant magnetism in the magnetite and pyrrhotite of the globules, combined with petrographic studies of plagioclase grains, however, indicates that this meteorite has not been exposed to a temperature above 40 °C or a change in bulk rock temperature of more than 120 °C (Fritz et al. 2005;Weiss et al. 2000;Weiss et al. 2002).”
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“This indicates that carbonate globules may form from fluids that vary greatly in their initial temperatures, though they may not vary much in the temperature at which deposition of the carbonate occurs.”
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“It has also been suggested that the outer rim of dual rim globules was formed by thermal decomposition of siderite during a shock event to leave magnesite and magnetite”
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“Therefore the observed petrography may only reflect the last impact event, as previous impact event textures would be reset (Fritz 2006, personal communication).”
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“The sulfur-containing mineral pyrrhotite found in the rims of globules (Figs.6c and 7e) has also been suggested to form from decomposition of pyrite during a thermal event after primary precipitation, and thus both type 1 and 2 globules may have experienced some transient heating event (Golden et al. 2004a).”
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“Hydrogen would be present in this system from dissociation of water and perhaps linked to dissolution of the host mineral matrix (Fig. 1c).”
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“Therefore neither investigation detected the strong Raman peak of hematite at ~1310 cm -1 peak or the ordered-disordered carbon bands of MMC (~1350 and ~1600 cm -1 ).”
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“There is currently no satisfactory explanation for this variation.”
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“Similar interaction between CO 2 and FeO have also been proposed as being responsible for MMC reservoirs in meteorites and IDPs”
§ Comprehensive imaging and Raman spectroscopy of carbonate globules from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 and a terrestrial analogue from Svalbard > Macromolecular Carbon (MMC) and Magnetite
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“One event, known as the I3 shock event, would have produced a heat pulse between 200 and 450 °C with pressures of up to 50 GPa, which should decompose siderite to magnetite and CO 2 , as well as produce the observed PAHs (Treiman 2003).”
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“Before analysis, our experimental null hypothesis stated that all the features seen in AHL 84001 have an abiogenic origin.Based on our current research, this hypothesis could not be falsified.”
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“Both, however, probably formed from rapid cooling of fluids, although mantle-derived fluids would probably have a much higher initial temperature than those formed from meteoric fluids.”
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“Two types of carbonate globules (Fig. 1) have previously been described in ALH 84001: dark brown globules containing a single magnetite rim, and lighter orange-colored globules with a second magnetite outer rim bounded by an area of magnesite (e.g., Figs.1a and 1d) (McKay et al. 1996;Treiman et al. 2003).”
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“Although we cannot constrain the temperatures at which this occurred”
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“This study shows unequivocally, and for the first time, the existence of an abiotic MMC synthesis mechanism that is indigenous to Mars”
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“Both depositional and impact-induced conditions in ALH 84001 could have formed MMC”
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“We cannot rule out an impact shock formation mechanism for the hematite from siderite”
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“We tentatively suggest that evidence of globule decarbonation and the presence of magnetite and MMC phases in the matrix of the rock may be linked.”
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“The outer orange layers of the carbonate may incorporate changes due to terrestrial alteration and be the repository for the organic contamination known to exist in this meteorite.”
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“Due to the similarity of the BVC and ALH 84001 globules, we hypothesize that the ALH 84001 globules formed in a similar manner, i.e., by cooling of hydrothermal fluids.”
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“Macromolecular carbon (MMC) was found in intimate association with magnetite in both ALH 84001 and BVC carbonates.”
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“This is not an unreasonable assumption given the presence of both hematite and magnetite in BVC and ALH 84001 (Koziol 2004).”
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“we hypothesize that the ALH 84001 globules formed in a similar manner, i.e., by cooling of hydrothermal fluids.”
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§ Comprehensive imaging and Raman spectroscopy of carbonate globules from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 and a terrestrial analogue from Svalbard > Raman Spectroscopy
“A trio of globule assemblages on a fracture surface of ALH 84001-357 was mapped to determine the distribution of characteristic spectral peaks (Fig. 6a).”
§ Comprehensive imaging and Raman spectroscopy of carbonate globules from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 and a terrestrial analogue from Svalbard > IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WORK
“Fig. 6. a) Light microscopy Z stack montage of a trio of carbonate globules from ALH 84001-380.”
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§ Comprehensive imaging and Raman spectroscopy of carbonate globules from Martian meteorite ALH 84001 and a terrestrial analogue from Svalbard > Raman Spectroscopy
“The carbonate intensity map at ~1090 cm -1 for globules from ALH 84001 and BVC did not reveal any information on the zoning of the globules in either sample's carbonates (Figs.3a and 3d).”
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“a) The carbonate distribution (~330 cm -1 carbonate peak) across an area of three carbonate globules contained in ALH 84001-357.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Steele, A., Fries, M. D., Amundsen, H. E. F., Mysen, B. O., Fogel, M. L., Schweizer, M., & Boctor, N. Z.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Steele, A.
- Venue
- Meteoritics & Planetary Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-09
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1549-1566
- ISSN
- 1086-9379 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-5100
- OpenAlex
- W2095154141
- Cited by
- 117
- References
- 54
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- FWCI
- 2.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Meteoritics and Planetary Science (publishedVersion)
- UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- University of Oxford
- Universitetet i Oslo
- Norsk Polarinstitutt
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Planetary Science and Exploration
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- ALH84001, Martian meteorites, carbonate globules, hematite, magnetite, magnesite, oxygen isotopes, hydrothermal alteration, mantle peridotite xenoliths, terrestrial analogs, globule formation
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