Noble gases in shocked igneous rocks from the 380 Ma-old Siljan impact structure (Sweden): A search for paleo-atmospheric signatures - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Chemical Geology Année : 2024

Noble gases in shocked igneous rocks from the 380 Ma-old Siljan impact structure (Sweden): A search for paleo-atmospheric signatures

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Finding direct records of the ancient Earth's atmosphere is key to understand the evolution of the entire planet. Nevertheless, such records are scarce, and only a few geological samples with preserved paleo-atmospheric signatures are available today. In this study, we analyzed noble gases contained in shocked granitic and volcanic rocks collected across the 380 Ma-old Siljan impact structure (in Sweden) to investigate the potential of shocked quartz crystals with planar deformation features (PDFs), often decorated by fluid inclusions, to preserve atmospheric signatures. Our results reveal that most of the investigated samples show relative elemental abundances of noble gases falling between those of air and meteoric water values. Atmospheric gases are present in the samples but excesses in radiogenic, nucleogenic, and fissiogenic noble gas isotopes highlight interactions of fluids with crustal rocks during the impact-generated hydrothermal circulation of fluids after the impact. Such fluid circulation event(s) could also have remobilized older fluids originally present in fluid inclusions preserved in the mineral lattices. Furthermore, results obtained on the two pure quartz fractions highlight a stronger atmospheric signature correlated with the presence of PDFs. The atmospheric component detected in this study could represent either a paleo-atmospheric signature trapped shortly after the Siljan impact event, or it may result from modern atmospheric contamination. Future studies of noble gases contained within shocked quartz crystals from other impact structures will unveil if such samples present advantages compared to other paleo-atmospheric proxies.
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hal-04732978 , version 1 (11-10-2024)

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Fanny Cattani, Guillaume Avice, Ludovic Ferrière, Sanna Alwmark. Noble gases in shocked igneous rocks from the 380 Ma-old Siljan impact structure (Sweden): A search for paleo-atmospheric signatures. Chemical Geology, 2024, pp.122440. ⟨10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122440⟩. ⟨hal-04732978⟩
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