TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphological changes of olivine grains reacted with amino acid solutions by impact process
AU - Umeda, Yuhei
AU - Takase, Atsushi
AU - Fukunaga, Nao
AU - Sekine, Toshimori
AU - Kobayashi, Takamichi
AU - Furukawa, Yoshihiro
AU - Kakegawa, Takeshi
N1 - Funding Information:
The EPMA analyses and TEM and SEM observations were performed at natural science center for basic research and development (N-BIRD), Hiroshima University. We gratefully acknowledge technical helps by K. Shibata and M. Maeda. We are thankful to T. Yamamoto for indexing of our data of SAED patterns and K. Das for improvement of our manuscript. We appreciate reviewer’s useful comments. This study was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grants 24654176, 15H02144, and 15H03752.
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© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - Early oceans on Earth might have contained certain amounts of biomolecules such as amino acids, and they were subjected to meteorite impacts, especially during the late heavy bombardment. We performed shock recovery experiments by using a propellant gun in order to simulate shock reactions among olivine as a representative meteorite component, water and biomolecules in oceans in the process of marine meteorite impacts. In the present study, recovered solid samples were analyzed by using X-ray powder diffraction method, scanning electron microscopy, electron probe microanalysis, and transmission electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry. The analytical results on shocked products in the recovered sample showed (1) morphological changes of olivine to fiber- and bamboo shoot-like crystals, and to pulverized grains; and features of lumpy surfaces affected by hot water, (2) the formation of carbon-rich substances derived from amino acids, and (3) the incorporation of metals from container into samples. According to the present results, fine-grained olivine in meteorites might have morphologically changed and shock-induced chemical reactions might have been enhanced so that amino acids related to the origin of life may have transformed to carbon-rich substances by impacts.
AB - Early oceans on Earth might have contained certain amounts of biomolecules such as amino acids, and they were subjected to meteorite impacts, especially during the late heavy bombardment. We performed shock recovery experiments by using a propellant gun in order to simulate shock reactions among olivine as a representative meteorite component, water and biomolecules in oceans in the process of marine meteorite impacts. In the present study, recovered solid samples were analyzed by using X-ray powder diffraction method, scanning electron microscopy, electron probe microanalysis, and transmission electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry. The analytical results on shocked products in the recovered sample showed (1) morphological changes of olivine to fiber- and bamboo shoot-like crystals, and to pulverized grains; and features of lumpy surfaces affected by hot water, (2) the formation of carbon-rich substances derived from amino acids, and (3) the incorporation of metals from container into samples. According to the present results, fine-grained olivine in meteorites might have morphologically changed and shock-induced chemical reactions might have been enhanced so that amino acids related to the origin of life may have transformed to carbon-rich substances by impacts.
KW - Amino acids
KW - Marine meteorite impacts
KW - Morphological changes
KW - Olivine
KW - Shock reactions
KW - Shock recovery experiments
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U2 - 10.1007/s00269-016-0849-y
DO - 10.1007/s00269-016-0849-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84990879036
VL - 44
SP - 203
EP - 212
JO - Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
JF - Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
SN - 0342-1791
IS - 3
ER -