Super-chondritic Sm/Nd ratios in Mars, the Earth and the Moon

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Caro, Guillaume [1 ]
Bourdon, Bernard [2 ]
Halliday, Alex N. [3 ]
Quitte, Ghylaine [4 ]
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[1] Univ Paris 07, Lab Geochim & Cosmochimie, Inst Phys Globe, F-75252 Paris 05, France
[2] ETH, Inst Isotope Geochem & Mineral Resources, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[3] Univ Oxford, Dept Earth Sci, Oxford OX1 3PR, England
[4] Ecole Normale Super Lyon, Lab Sci Terre, F-69364 Lyon 7, France
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英国科学技术设施理事会;
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10.1038/nature06760
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Small isotopic differences in the atomic abundance of neodymium-142 (Nd-142) in silicate rocks represent the time- averaged effect of decay of formerly live samarium- 146 (Sm-146) and provide constraints on the timescales and mechanisms by which planetary mantles first differentiated(1-4). This chronology, however, assumes that the composition of the total planet is identical to that of primitive undifferentiated meteorites called chondrites. The difference in the Nd-142/Nd-144 ratio between chondrites and terrestrial samples may therefore indicate very early isolation (<30Myr from the formation of the Solar System) of the upper mantle or a slightly non- chondritic bulk Earth composition(5,6). Here we present high-precision Nd-142 data for 16 martian meteorites and show that Mars also has a non- chondritic composition. Meteorites belonging to the shergottite subgroup define a planetary isochron yielding an age of differentiation of 40 +/- 18 Myr for the martian mantle. This isochron does not pass through the chondritic reference value ( 100 x epsilon Nd-142 = -21 +/- 3; Sm-147/Nd-144 = 0.1966)(6). The Earth, Moon and Mars all seem to have accreted in a portion of the inner Solar System with similar to 5 per cent higher Sm/Nd ratios than material accreted in the asteroid belt. Such chemical heterogeneities may have arisen from sorting of nebular solids or from impact erosion of crustal reservoirs in planetary precursors. The Nd-143 composition of the primitive mantle so defined by Nd-142 is strikingly similar to the putative endmember component 'FOZO' characterized by high He-3/He-4 ratios(7,8).
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