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Shock-metamorphic features in amphiboles from the Xiuyan crater of China

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Amphibole-bearing gneiss fragments are common in the impact breccias of the Xiuyan crater, China. Three kinds of amphibole-bearing gneiss fragments with different shock-metamorphic levels have been identified. Shock-metamorphic features of amphiboles in these gneisses were investigated in situ by optical microscope, electron microprobe, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. Amphiboles in the weakly shocked gneiss (shock pressure less than 10 GPa) basically remain intact. Amphiboles in the moderately shocked gneiss (shock pressure range between 35 and 45 GPa) show strong deformation, reduced optical interference color, and partial loss of OH−. In the strongly shocked gneiss (shock pressure above 50 GPa), amphiboles are completely melted and dendritic pyroxenes crystallize from the melt. The formation of dendritic pyroxenes shows nearly complete loss of water in the amphibole melt at shock-induced high temperature above 1,500 °C. The occurrence of both diopside and pigeonite dendrites crystallized in the same amphibole melt shows inhomogenous melt composition and rapid cooling of the melt.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Xiangping Gu (Central South University, Changsha, China) for the help in XRD analysis, and to C. Koeberl, an anonymous reviewer, and the handing editor Hans Keppler for constructive comments and suggestions on our manuscript. This work was supported by GIGCAS 135 Project (Grant No. Y234071001) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41172044). This is contribution No. IS-1845 from GIGCAS.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kehua street 511, Tianhe, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Feng Yin

  2. College of Earth Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Feng Yin

  3. State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kehua street 511, Tianhe, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Ming Chen

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Yin, F., Chen, M. Shock-metamorphic features in amphiboles from the Xiuyan crater of China. Contrib Mineral Petrol 167, 999 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-014-0999-1

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