Lunar glass compositions: Apollo 16 core sections 60002 and 60004

Approximately 500 glasses between 1 mm and 125 μm in size have been analyzed from fourteen samples from the Apollo 16 core sections 60002 and 60004. The majority of glasses have compositions comparable to those found in previous studies of lunar surface soils; however, two new and distinct glass compositions that are probably derived in part from mare material occur in the core samples. The major glass composition in all samples is that of Highland Basalt glass, but it also appears that high-K Fra Mauro Basalt (KREEP) glass is more common at the Apollo 16 site than was previously thought. The relative abundance of glasses within the core samples is random in distribution: each sample is characterized by a particular assemblage and distribution of the constituent glass compositions.     

Recycling of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) in Electronic Waste

The management of used electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) or e‐waste is a significant problem worldwide due to rapid uptake of the technology and early obsolescence of EEE. Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) from used televisions and computer monitors represent a major e‐waste problem as they consist of glass with different compositions. The front panel is a lead‐free barium‐strontium glass whereas parts such as the funnel hidden inside are composed of glass with lead oxides. Regulations require the glass from waste CRTs to be recycled or re‐utilized. Closed‐loop recycling and open‐loop recycling are two principal ways of recycling CRT glass. The aim of this paper is to examine the technical characteristics and composition of the CRTs, its generation, environmental impacts and related regulatory requirements and to review the current technologies and their limitations for recycling CRT glass and its end use.     

Palagonite,hyaloclastites and alteration of volcanic glass in the ocean

Palagonite is an hydrated and often altered glass usually associated with sub-aqueous basaltic volcanites. It is commonly considered as an alteration product of normal basaltic glass (sideromelane) with which it is associated in hyaloclastites. Existing information on the diffusion rates of water in natural glasses suggests, however, that the hydration which causes the formation of palagonite takes place at relatively high temperature, that is mainly during effusion and cooling of the lava under water. It is also suggested that generally palagonite is not formed in nature to any great extent from the alteration of sideromelane. Palagonite appears to devitrify much faster than normal unhydrated glass of the same composition. This fact may explain some previously unclear data on the occurrence of volcanic glasses on the floor of the oceans; namely, the existence of totally devitrified glasses in some recent sediments and the finding of unaltered glass in older deposits.     

The “Pomici di mercato” Plinian eruption of Somma-Vesuvius: magma chamber processes and eruption dynamics

The Pomici di Mercato (PdM, 8,010 ± 40 a), also known in the literature as Pomici Gemelle or Pomici di Ottaviano, is one of the oldest Plinian eruptions of Somma-Vesuvius. This eruption occurred after the longest (7 ka) quiescence period of the volcano and was followed by more than 4 ka of repose. The erupted magma is phonolitic in composition. All the products have very low phenocrysts content (less than 3%) and show evidence of mineralogical disequilibria. They contain K-feldspar ± clinopyroxene (salite and diopside) ± plagioclase ± garnet ± biotite ± amphibole ± apatite ± Fe-Ti oxides. Pumice fragments collected at different stratigraphic heights are slightly less evolved and more enriched in radiogenic Sr composition upsection. The glass composition is fairly homogeneous in single pumice fragment and among pumice fragments from different layers. Glass separated from pumice fragments collected at different stratigraphic heights is homogeneous in the Sr-isotope composition (around a value of 0.70717). Glass is in isotopic equilibrium with salite throughout the entire sequence and with diopside at the base of the sequence. Diopside becomes more radiogenic upsection, reaching a value of 0.707458 ± 7, whereas feldspar is consistently slightly less radiogenic than glass. Nd-isotope composition is fairly uniform (ca. 0.51247) through the whole sequence. The isotopic disequilibria among glass, feldspar and diopside, together with the homogeneous isotopic composition of pumice glass in equilibrium with salite, and the mineralogical disequilibria between plagioclase and K-feldspar, imply that most of the diopside and plagioclase crystals are xenocrysts incorporated into the phonolitic magma during residence in a magma chamber and/or during ascent towards the surface. The PdM Tephra are compositionally and isotopically similar to the phonolitic, first-erupted products of the subsequent Pomici di Avellino Plinian eruption. On the basis of this similarity, we suggest that the magma feeding both eruptions resulted from the tapping of a unique magma chamber. Prior to the PdM eruption, this chamber was formed by a large and homogeneous phonolitic magma body. After the PdM eruption, as a consequence of new arrivals of more radiogenic in Sr, less-differentiated magma batches, the magma chamber progressively developed a slightly stratified phonolitic uppermost portion, capping a tephriphonolitic layer, both emitted during the subsequent Pomici di Avellino eruption.     

工业CT在增强硬质聚氨酯泡沫塑料无损检测中的应用

为提高作为结构材料使用时硬质聚氨酯泡沫塑料(RPUF)的力学性能,在基体材料中添加增强材料形成了增强RPUF(RRPUF),RRPUF内部的材料组成及结构特征影响其力学性能.本文应用微焦点锥束体式工业CT技术,进行了玻璃纤维RRPUF三维结构的工业CT检测,获得了高分辨率的RRPUF三维结构CT图像,并解析了RRPUF内部结构特征,包括玻璃纤维及泡孔的形状、位置、尺寸、体积含量以及分布状况等.研究表明微焦点VCT技术可有效地实现RRPUF内部结构特征的检测及分析,为进一步研究RRPUF的性能提供了重要方法.     

The partial fusion of peridotite

In a study of the origin of basalt magma, peridotite has been partially fused and the composition of the liquid phases determined. Peridotite was chosen because it is thought to be the most likely material of the upper mantle. Geological evidence suggests that the upper mantle is not of basaltic composition and eclogitic mineralogy but that it is of ultrabasic composition. Although under some conditions an ultrabasic mantle may be within the field of eclogite stability, the comparative rarity of high-pressure phases such as garnet in ultrabasic nodules suggests that normal basalts are derived from non-eclogitic regions. The peridotite composition selected for experimental work was that of average peridotite (Nockolds). Charges of the synthetic peridotite were held at constant temperature (±1/2°C) in a non-oxidising atmosphere for one week. After quenching, the glass was extracted and analysed. The glass content varied from 4% at 1250°C to 26% at 1355°C. Its composition ranged from a basalt more or less saturated in normative silica at a temperature of 1310°C (15% fusion) and below, to picrite basalt at higher temperatures. The results confirm the general assumption that basalts can be the product of the partial fusion of peridotite. To date, the experimental work has been under anhydrous conditions at atmospheric pressure.     

Magma mixing: petrological process and volcanological tool

Magma mixing is a widespread, if not universal igneous phenomenon of variable importance. The evidence for magma mixing is found primarily in glassy tephra; the consolidation of lava obscures the evidence. Inclusions of glass in big crystals in tephra, because of their greater range in composition compared to the whole rock and the residual glass, indicate that the big crystals were derived from separate systems which mixed together prior to and during eruption. The observed or reconstructed concentration of K₂O in inclusions of glass in large crystals represent the composition of the contaminant and host systems. Selective enrichment in K₂O during entrapment of melt by growing crystals is shown to be negligible. The weight percents of K₂O in host, contaminant and residual glass and bulk rock determine the proportions of contaminant and host required to yield either the residual glass or bulk rock. In several cases the proportion of contaminant required is substantially larger than the proportion of crystals in the hybrid magma; therefore, by heat budget argument, the contaminant was partly liquid when contamination began. In some tephra individual phenocrysts contain glasses which are more silicic toward the center of the crystal indicating that the crystal grew from a melt whose composition changed in the opposite sense to that expected for progressive solidification of a closed system. Space time associations of compositionally distinct glassy tephra with contaminated magmas suggest coexistence of basaltic and silicic melts within magma systems. Evidence of contamination is present in most tephra studied so far. Magma mixing appears to be the prevalent process whereby contamination occurs. Magma mixing seems to be particularly evident in systems where there is independent evidence for a vapor-saturated magma reservoir. Probably vapor saturation promotes mixing in magma systems. Magma mixing probably is an important mechanism of compositional diversification (differentiation) of volcanic rocks from continental margin and possibly other environments.Textural evidence of the onset of magma mixing can be related to disturbance of a complex reservoir immediately before ascent and eruption. Thus, conditions before mixing can be ascribed to the reservoir. In this way it is possible to learn about the reservoir: its composition, its diversity, its depth, its walls. It is also possible to learn about the causes of eruption: whether by increase in gas pressure due to either progressive consolidation, or heating from below by an injection of hot magma, or by encounter with ground water; whether by buoyant rise. Evaluation of these problems requires also a thorough knowledge of the chronology of particular eruptions. Thus, magma mixing is a useful volcanological tool.     

Crystallization calculations for a binary melt cooling at constant rates of heat removal: implications for the crystallization of magma bodies

We report on thermodynamic non-equilibrium crystallization calculations for a unit volume of a binary melt subject to a constant, prescribed rate of heat loss. Crystallization histories and crystal size distributions for both melt components were calculated by accounting for the nucleation and growth of crystals. The crystal sizes were found to decrease with increasing rates of heat loss. The crystallization time defined as the time to crystallize 99% of the unit volume also decreased strongly with increasing rates of heat loss up to a critical rate. The critical rate was found to be somewhat smaller than the heat loss rate for the beginning of glass formation. At larger than critical rates, crystallization time increased again and for rates larger than the glass formation rate, crystallization time became infinite. The residual melt composition was found to increasingly deviate from the equilibrium composition with increasing rates of heat loss. But as long as the loss rate was less than the critical rate the crystallization path reverted to the eutectic composition during the final crystallization. For supercritical rates, no such reversion was observed. We compared the critical rate with estimates of the rates of heat loss in magmatic intrusions based on the Stefan solution for a freezing half space. It was found that rates of heat loss should be supercritical at distances of up to 0.5 m from the margin of an intrusion. In this region, non-equilibrium effects are expected to dominate and the texture of the crystallized rock should be characterized by small crystals and by glass. The glass and the crystals should be of non-equilibrium composition. Non-equilibrium effects should be negligible only at distances of more than 5 m from the margin where the rates of heat loss are less than 10⁻² times critical. At these distances, the crystallized rock should have an equigranular texture and an equilibrium composition.     

High-silica (>60%) lunar glasses in an Apollo 14 soil sample: Evidence for silicic lunar volcanism?

The major element compositions of 93 low specific gravity (<2.60), high-silica (>60%) glass particles, from a sample of lunar fines (14259,20) were determined by electron microprobe analyses. The size, shape, abundance, mineralogy and major element composition of most (>60%) of the high-silica glasses is consistent with their being fragments of interstitial glass from mare basalts. However, one group of 30 glasses with between 72% and 78% SiO₂ and an average of ～2.6% FeO can be distinguished from other high-silica glasses both chemically and petrographically. Glass particles with this composition do not contain crystalline inclusions and are fairly homogeneous not only within a single particle, but also from particle to particle. The chemistry and petrology of these glasses suggest that they are not fragments of interstitial glass or shock-melted particles from a “granitic” source rock. Rather, the homogeneity and lack of crystalline inclusions suggest that this group of high-silica glasses was the product of lunar acidic volcanism.     

Natural shock behavior of almandite in metamorphic rocks from the ries crater,Germany

An extensive study of a big number of gneiss specimens with various shock features from the suevite allowed unravelling of the shock behavior of almandite garnets.Almandites in shocked metamorphic rocks show with increasing dynamic pressures strong irregular fracturing. differently oriented sets of planar fractures or elements, brown turbidity and nucleation of minute crystals of an unknown phase in solid garnets. At higher peak pressures garnet was found to break down to (1) orthopyroxene + spinel + glass, and to (2) spinel + glass due to fast shock-melting.Extensive quantitative electron microprobe studies of almandite garnets and their breakdown products were carried out. The breakdown products within the original grain boundaries of the garnets consist of an alumina-rich orthopyroxene (with up to 10 wt. % Al₂O₃), hercynite to pleonaste spinels and a silica and calcium-rich glass matrix. The chemical zonation of magnesium and manganese of the former garnets is inherited in the composition of the newly formed orthopyroxenes.Petrographic evidence and chemical composition suggest a fast breakdown of the almandite garnets after passing of shock waves at rapidly falling pressures and very high post-shock temperatures within the ejected gneissic rock material.     

Terrestrial chondrules,glass spherules and accretionary lapilli from the suevite,Ries Crater,Germany

Until recently, no terrestrial analogues of meteoritic and lunar chondrules were known. Only rare glass spherules from the Lonar Crater, India, and black magnetic spherules from various localities have been recorded. The impact breccia suevite of the No¨rdlinger Ries Crater, Germany, contains both chondrules and glass spherules, and in addition, accretionary lapilli, all of which are found imbedded within the fine-grained matrix of the suevite. The chondrules display many of the textural features characteristic of meteoritic and lunar chondrules. Lithic chondrules and fluid drop chondrules are present, the latter having a composition quite similar to that of glass bombs and glass fragments in the suevite. Fluid drop chondrules developed from glass spherules by slow devitrification in the hot suevite ejecta masses after deposition. On the whole, fluid drop chondrules, lithic chondrules and glass spherules are rare in the suevite, with fluid drop chondrules prevailing. Detection of chondrules from a terrestrial impact crater supports theories of an impact origin for meteoritic and lunar chondrules. Accretionary lapilli also represent material formed as a result of impact.     

Melting of hydrous upper mantle and possible generation of andesitic magma: An approach from synthetic systems

Phase equilibria in a portion of the system forsterite-plagioclase (An₅₀Ab₅₀ by weight)-silica-H₂O have been determined at 15 kbar pressure under H₂O-saturated conditions. The composition of the liquid pertinent to the piercing point forsterite + enstatite solid solution + amphibole + liquid + vapor is similar to that of calc-alkaline andesite. The electron microprobe analysis of the glass coexisting with the above three crystalline phases is very close to that of the piercing point determined by phase assemblage observations; however, the glass near (< 8 μm) forsterite crystals is significantly depleted in the normative forsterite component. With the addition of 10 wt.% KAlSi₃O₈, the composition of this piercing point becomes even closer to the compositions of calc-alkaline andesites. It is also shown that the liquid coexisting with forsterite and enstatite solid solution remains silica-rich (60–62 wt.%) over a wide (～ 100°C) temperature range. The present experimental studies support the view that liquids similar in composition to calc-alkaline andesites can be generated by direct partial melting of hydrous upper mantle at least at or near 15 kbar.     

New data on the synthesis and stability relations of glaucophane

A glass of cordierite composition was found in a highly shocked garnet gneiss collected from Otting quarry in the Ries crater. This glass varies in color from colorless to dark brown. Despite the variation in color no compositional variation from grain to grain was found. Electron microprobe analyses of several glasses revealed: SiO₂ 49.07%, Al₂O₃ 34.15%, FeO 6.07%, MgO 9.77%, CaO 0.07%, K₂O 0.11%, Na₂O 0.42%. In the sample investigated, all cordierite grains were transformed to isotropic cordierite glass.     

Ⅰ期浸润性肺腺癌磨玻璃影及附壁样生长三维CT值定量分析

目的:探究采用三维CT值定量分析Ⅰ期浸润性肺腺癌磨玻璃影及其与病理上附壁样生长成分的相关性。方法:选取2013年6月至2017年6月收治的Ⅰ期浸润性肺腺癌患者168例,采用三维CT值定量分析软件及最大径线测量法计算Ⅰ期浸润性肺腺癌磨玻璃影成分比例,对浸润性腺癌的附壁样生长成分实施半定量评估,并对两者进行相关性分析。结果:采用三维CT值定量分析测量取得磨玻璃影成分比例为（0.21±0.18）,根据最大径线法测量取得磨玻璃影成分比例为（0.44±0.36）,病理切片半定量分析测量附壁成分比例为（0.29±0.24）。采用三维CT值定量及最大径线法分析测量所取得的磨玻璃影成分比例与附壁样生长成分比例均呈正相关（r=0.634和0.598,P=0.000）。最大径线法测得磨玻璃影成分比例与附壁样生长成分比例有3.8%在95%可信区间以外,三维CT值定量分析为4.4%,两者差异无统计学意义（P>0.05）。结论:通过三维值定量分析Ⅰ期浸润性肺腺癌患者磨玻璃影成分与附壁样生长成分具有显著相关性,其对辅助病理诊断具有重要临床意义,相比于最大径线法更能够全面反映Ⅰ期浸润性肺腺癌肿瘤的状况。      

Fundamental processes controlling the first stage of alteration of a basalt glass by seawater: an experimental study between 200° and 320°C

The first stage of alteration of a basalt glass by seawater has been studied experimentally between 200° and 320°C under vapor pressure, following both the chemical evolution of the reacting solutions during the experiments and the chemical and mineralogical transformations of the altered glass surface via microprobe, scanning transmission electron microscope and resonant nuclear reactions.The alteration is controlled by diffusion of dissolved species through an altered layer and not by surface chemical reaction. Selective removal of cations with respect to SiO₂ leads to the formation of a thick, porous protonated surface layer enriched in SiO₂. Aqueous diffusion of dissolved species from the reacting glass and from solution through the pores of this layer results in the formation of an amorphous silicate gel which is the precursor of normal crystalline clays (saponites) appearing in a later stage.Computer simulations of the alteration generated with the EQ3/6 computer software package account for the chemical composition of the rim and the sequence of secondary minerals found in the experiments.     

The case for a martian origin of the shergottites: nitrogen and noble gases in EETA 79001

Nitrogen and noble gases were measured in samples of a glass inclusion and the surrounding basaltic matrix from the antarctic shergottite EETA 79001. A nitrogen component trapped in the glass, but not present in the matrix, has a δ¹⁵N value at least as high as +190‰. Ratios of⁴⁰Ar/¹⁴N and¹⁵N/¹⁴N in the glass are consistent with dilution of a martian atmospheric component (δ¹⁵N = 620 ± 160‰,⁴⁰Ar/¹⁴N= 0.33 ± 0.03) by either terrestrial atmosphere adsorbed on the samples or by indigenous nitrogen from the minerals of the rock. Trapped noble gases in the glass reproduce, within error, the elemental and isotopic compositions measured in Mars' atmosphere by Viking, and are in general agreement with previous measurements except for much lower abundances of neutron-generated krypton and xenon isotopes. The most reasonable explanation at the present time for the noble gas pattern and the isotopically heavy nitrogen is that a sample of martian atmosphere has been trapped in the EETA 79001 glass, and that this meteorite, and thus the shergottites and probably the nakhlites and chassignites as well, originated on Mars.Nitrogen in the non-glassy matrix of EETA 79001 amounts to less than 0.5 ppm and has a spallation-corrected δ¹⁵N value in the range 0 to ?20‰; it may reflect indigenous nitrogen in the basalt or a mixture of indigenous and adsorbed terrestrial nitrogen. Spallogenic noble gases yield single-stage exposure ages between 400,000 and 900,000 years, depending on irradiation geometry. Trapped argon may have an unusually low³⁶Ar/³⁸Ar ratio. Trapped krypton, except for a small excess at⁸⁰Kr, is smoothly mass-fractionated with respect to either terrestrial or chondritic Kr. The trapped xenon composition is consistent with addition of neutron-capture, radiogenic and fissiogenic isotopes to a base composition resembling terrestrial atmospheric Xe. The elemental⁸⁴Kr/¹³²Xe ratio of 25 is close to the terrestrial value and very different from the chondritic ratio.     

Origin of rhyolites by anatectic melting of granitic crustal rocks

Rhyolitic pumice deposits on some East Aegean Islands are the remnants of a tuff sheet which covered formerly more than 2500 km². The rhyolites originated by melting of granitic crustal rocks. The petrological properties leading to this conclusion are as follows:

-mineralogical composition of the pumice being 60 wt % of glass and 40 % of relictic granitic minerals (quartz, plagioclase, potash feldspar, biotite) in «phenocrysts» up to 1 cm Ø.

-phenomena of strong corrosion, resorption and melting of all light colored «phenocrysts» in the rhyolitic pumice.

-mineralogical and chemical identity between pumice and granitic xenolites found in great quantity in the pumice tuff.

-structurally transitional types between pumice and the granites in different state of melting.

-eutectic composition of the pumice glass for a pressure of 2 kb.

     

Rhonite in molten inclusions from the olivine of allivalite nodules from Malyi Semyachik Volcano and basalts of Klyuchevskoi Volcano,Kamchatka

A microprobe study of olivine found in allivalite nodules from lavas discharged by Malyi Semyachik Volcano and of olivine phenocrysts from basalts discharged by Klyuchevskoi Volcano revealed the presence of rhonite as a daughter mineral, for the first time ever. Rhonite was found in small (10–50 μm) grains that are xenomorphic in intergrowths with other minerals and have regular crystallographic outlines in contact with glass. We also found high-alumina clinopyroxene, chromium-free spinel, and hornblende. Residual glass is distinguished by its higher concentrations of SiO₂, Al₂O₃, alkalies, and by lower concentrations of FeO, MgO, and CaO. The chemical composition of the rhonite we studied is characterized by limited variations of the major components and fits the formula (Si,Al)₆(Ti,Al,Fe⁺³,Fe⁺²,Mn,Mg)₆(Ca,Na)₂O₂₀ well. The data points in the composition of the rhonites we have studied lie in the overall field of much more variable compositions to be found in the field. Unlike the previous findings in alkaline and subalkaline rocks, the rhonite we describe in the present report was found in rocks of the tholeiitic and calc-alkaline series.     

Evidence for magma hybridization for the voluminous 29.5 Ma Wah Wah Springs Formation, Utah and Nevada, U.S.A.

The 29.5 Ma Wah Wah Springs Formation which erupted from the Indian Peak Caldera has an estimated volume of > 3900 km³ making it one of the largest ignimbrites on earth. The magma was calc-alkaline, dacitic (68 wt. % SiO₂) and phenocryst-rich (38 vol.%). Phenocrysts include plagioclase (An 47), magnesio-hornblende, Mg-biotite, quartz, Fe-Ti oxides, diopsidic-augite, and rare Ca-poor pyroxene, in order of decreasing abundance. Apatite, zircon and pyrrhotite occurs as inclusions within phenocrysts. Atmospheric glass losses (1040 km³) account for bulk-rock compositions that have SiO₂ contents ranging from 63 to 67 wt.%. Glass compositions are high-silica rhyolite.Phenocrysts equilibrated at temperatures ranging from about 790 to 850°C and oxygen fugacities approximately 2.6 log units above the QFM buffer. Confining pressure estimates using the aluminum-in-hornblende geobarometer calibrated for calc-alkaline volcanic rocks suggest a mean pressure of 230±50 MPa corresponding to 7.5±1.5 km depth. These estimates are consistent with caldera formation accompanying emplacement.Crystal compositions for phenocrysts and mineral inclusions within phenocrysts are remarkably homogeneous throughout the outflow tuff, although minor zoning does occur. Given the dacitic composition of the magma, the weakly zoned phenocryst population cannot be modeled to produce the observed high-silica glass (melt) indicating open-system behavior for the magma. The high-silica rhyolite glass is interpreted to be an artifact of efficient magma mixing accompanying addition of highly evolved magma, or melt to intermediate composition magma. Mixing was followed by magma hybridization. Additional support for this hybridization model includes: (1) physically and chemically distinct populations of augite; (2) minor but unbiquitous resorbed plagioclase, biotite and hornblende phenocrysts; and (3) reverse zoning in some of the plagioclase euhedra within pumice lapilli.     

The Bag Tephra, a widespread tephrochronological marker in Middle Europe: chemical and mineralogical investigations

 The Bag Tephra is a widespread tephra layer interbedded in Quaternary loess deposits along the Danubian valley of Hungary and Slovakia. Its age is poorly defined between 788 and 380 ka B.P. The glass and mineral composition – micropumice clasts of phono-tephrite and blocky shards of tephri-phonolite associated with two kinds of clinopyroxene, fassaitic diopside, and salite – is very distinctive. This tephra could be used as a chronological marker, as soon as its age is refined. The probable origin is the middle Italian volcanic area. Received: 3 November 1998 / Accepted: 18 January 1999